TW WALSH
BLUE LAWS

Recorded at The People Under the Stairs
Produced by Frank Padalerro and TW Walsh
Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by Frank Padalerro and TW Walsh
Arrangements by David Trenholm

PERSONNEL
TW Walsh: voice, guitar, piano, keyboard, bass, drums
Frank Padellaro: voice, bass, slide guitar
Mark Turcotte: trombone
Phil Helzor: cello
Chris Devine: violing, viola
Ken Maiuri: guitar
Matthew Zapruder: guitar

SONGS
1. Kudos For The Player
2. Old Fashioned Way Of Speaking (mp3)
3. The Wages Of Dying Is Love
4. Everybody Knows This Is No Fair
5. Massachusettes Militia Fight Song
6. Lions And Tigers And Bears
7. Gullwatching
8. Top Of The Food Chain
9. O Sweet Sweet Danger

REVIEW
For his second album, TW Walsh wisely opts for fuller instrumentation and more varied delivery than on 1999's promising debut, "How We Spend Our Days." Back then the Massachusetts songwriter sounded like a young guy who'd studied his Neil Young and listened to a lot of thoughtful indie rock. On "Blue Laws," the 25-year-old flexes more boldly, adding colorful brush strokes to his witty vignettes. A stirring string section props up the midtempo "Kudos for the Player," with Walsh musing adenoidally and abstractly about the meaning of life. Such developed material makes his more minimalist efforts, like the low-paced "The Wages of Dying is Love," more effective, as well as the full-on rock diversion "Top of the Food Chain." Walsh uses his humor wisely, scoring with lines like "You called in sick to pick up all the ammo with a joke to play down why you wore all the camo." -Pulse!

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