Video: Andy Friedman & the Other Failures

Andy Friedman is alt-country. But not just because Nashville won't have him or because his music has too much integrity to be just more anthemic slop featured on commercial country stations. No, he's alt-country because he's really saying something with each and every song and that's something that even the best alt-country simply doesn't do. He's using the medium of pedal steel, guitar and tears in a beer to express either deeply personal, poetic stuff ("Self-Portrait..") or unpopular political ideas. Andy Friedman's new record, his debut studio release, is called Taken Man [...]

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