Slow Motion Town (2006) – Jake Berry – Having grown up in a small town, this set is a homage to the locales and people who inhabit the often overlooked and forgotten places whether they are rural or small neighborhoods hidden in large cities. This is also an unflinching series of observations and narratives about the heartland, the kind of work we do and the lives we live when the old traditions of family, steady jobs and friendly neighborhoods have vanished. At times nostalgic for a more rugged but reliable past, at times finding unlikely heroes and sympathetic anti-heroes in the most mundane places (department stores, all night dinners, and liquor stores), Slow Motion Town is a questing, earnest attempt to reckon with modern realities set to country waltzes, acoustic blues and contemporary ballads. To download “A Taste of Poison,” “One Sweet Night,” and “Black Cat Stomp” click here.