​Tim Grimm (from the album Bones of Trees

​Tim Grimm (from the album Bones of Trees

​Tim Grimm (from the album Bones of Trees available as a self-release) (by Danny McCloskey)
Tim Grimm matches the fire and fury of Fok music traditions as he updates the genre with contemporary political issues and observations on Bones of Trees, his recently released album. Bones of Trees curates the many moods of Folk music when the album politicizes a story-song tribute to Woody Guthrie in (“Woody’s Landlord Revisited”) while the acoustic picking quiets to hear the tale of Liverpool son Frances Toliver as he enters a World War holiday celebration with “Christmas in the Trenches”. Musicians with guitars can spin a song. A folk musician tells a story that enters our consciousness, an audio worm wriggling to safety as it burrows into our consciousness. Tim Grimm is a champion for the guitar player as three-chord prophet and don’t-shot-the-messenger troubadours.
Hometown America reads the headlines that are billboards in newspapers from big cities to small towns when Tim Grimm opens the daily news to include stories that take place “In the USA”. He questions inalienable rights that have lost their bluster, breaking down to a world-worn Blues byline that claims ‘I ain’t gonna be treated this a-way’. A history lesson is packed with Patrick Shannon’s worldly possessions as an Irish immigrant gets ready to pledge allegiance to a new home in “Mists of Ennistymon” while hesitant strums climb the stairs with a sad stride ascending “Up in the Attic”. A tangle of acoustic notes craft the framework for a Mid-West workingman’s tale in “Barbed Wire Boys”. Bones of Trees lays out a DIY guide to aging for “Getting’ Older”. Tim Grimm is an A-list storyteller that mimics the masters as he lets the song be the star in Bones of Trees.  A giddy-up rhythm adds Americana Country to the search for a lost “Hunting Shack” while a slowly unraveling touch of twang points fingers at the travesty of current administration with “Broken Truth”. Tim Grimm takes aim at the poor decisions of youth with “Bow and Arrow” as he exits Bones of Trees on the dry Southwest rhythms of “Hadley’s Banjo”. (by Danny McCloskey)
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