Blog: the bathysphere

Ben Kweller Changing Horses ATO, 2009 W e need another roots record like we need a GMC truck, my fellow Americans - one look at the old-timey cover art and I was ready to loathe this one. But the tragedy is that Ben Kweller just released the best album of his career. Dobros, steel guitars, violins fiddles, folksy aphorisms, and background singers probably named Loretta or Peggy abound - but the payoff after three misty verses of "Old Hat" wouldn't be quite as glorious if he'd [...]