Product Description
TROUBLED TIMES is melancholic, beautiful, and as all encompassing as a womb filled with warm guitars, rumbling electric keyboards, and your occasional banjo.
Exploded old-standard songform populated with poetry hovering around the state-of-the-union. Politics, romance, who we are together, who we are alone. Who we are on TV. Who is writing this?
About the Artist
Holcombe Waller is an independent artist living in San Francisco, California though by the time you read this he may be in Portland, New York, the Netherlands, or who knows where, following his muse. He's just sold all his possessions and is making a go at it. This is his story.
The first thing to note about Holcombe is his unearthly voice. In the 70s you would have compared him to Van Morrision, in the 90s to Jeff Buckley. These days the hip reference is probably Damien Rice or another SF native, Devendra Banhart, but let's just agree that he is touched.
Mark Mardon of Bay Area Reporter writes: "[Holcombe] sings in his gorgeous, hauntingly plaintive voice, and plays bass, piano, drum machine, Wurlitzer, percussion, adn some guitar. Adding to the instrumentation is Ben Landsverk, who plays most of the guitar parts and all the banjo licks. TROUBLED TIMES showcases a great young singer/songwriter... Holcombe uses vocals as deftly as any instrument, showing the marks of a classically trained musician. 'Literally the End of the World' is a wail, a cry, a plea, a confession: 'Put newspaper stacks wrapped on the curb as my offering, and shared the peace." (June 24, 2004)
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