driftwood soldier stay ahead of the wolf

Driftwood Soldier (from the album Stay Ahead of the Wolf available on Trash Cat Records)
In the blurry demimonde world of back alley Jazz, the soundtrack is stacked with Dark Side Pop from artists like Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Rickie Lee Jones, Robert Smith, Siouxsie & The Banshees, and Nick Cave. Adding to the sad sparkle of songs spinning on the jukebox come Driftwood Soldier, a gutterfolk duo of mandolin and upright bass from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Instrumentation such as a lonely trumpet and percussion move in and out of Stay Ahead of the Wolf much like its characters such as “Old Man Catfish” and “Marietta”.
 
The album title becomes a lesson learned when Driftwood Soldier weave a noir fairytale with “You Gotta Stay”, making a mantra of ‘you gotta stay ahead of the wolf’. The album opens with first cut “All My Friends” steadily building heft as it fills in a resume for Driftwood Soldier with words and music. Revisionist history tells the tale of “John Henry” while a gypsy wind flies from the musical backing of “Banker and a Liar” and dive bar patrons pick up the chorus of “Sunny Side” as the neon beer sign spotlights individual stories. Stay Ahead of the Wolf introduces a local pooch in “Topeka” and explains the cause of its troubles over a stuttering beat in “If It’s Not Obvious” as Driftwood Solider exit the album taking “Blue Way” out amid a flutter of musical notes chords.
 
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