(cover image by Wayne Sides)Trouble In Your House (1998) – Bare Knuckles – Following the release of Shadow Resolve Jake Berry joined with Wayne Sides, the award winning visual artist and musician, to perform original songs as well as old country blues and mountain folk music in coffee houses, restaurants, and other small venues. Sides sings some of his own compositions and plays tub bass, bass kalimba, and percussion. They quickly assembled a set of songs based on the roots of the older music. The title cut, written by Sides, is a study is dark foreboding and the rest of the CD covers themes familiar to fans of American folk music – love and loss, tragedy and jubilation, dissolution and redemption. The songs were usually recorded in a single take with guest musicians often setting in. Jim Wisniewski’s haunting flute solo on “Sweet Misery” and Richard Curtis’s soulful scat singing on “Daddy Rabbit” augment the spare arrangements with originality and passion. To download the tracks “Daddy Rabbit” and “Sweet Misery” click here.
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