​Jangling Sparrows (from the album Telecoaster

​Jangling Sparrows (from the album Telecoaster available as a self-release) (by Bryant Liggett)
Paul Edelman has this Rock’n’Roll thing figured out. Recording as Jangling Sparrows, his 2020 release Bootstraps and Other American Fables was a fierce blast of hard Americana, and his follow up, which dropped in late 2021, follows to a place where FM rock and Indie-Roots score an Alt Country party. Telecoaster is more Roots melodies and solid lyrical quips barked out like life affirming orders, and at least one timeless anthem you’ll wish you heard as a teenager just so you could sing along to it at the top of your lungs.
A loose horn-section kicks the record off with “Ready or Not”, an intro that is ass-kicking advice in a song, and that zips into “Hey There, Brother”, a cut that has a styling R&B groove that weaves throughout the roots rock. “I Still Love Rock and Roll” is that song you needed as a teen; Edelman singing of things that keep you down, from social media to vanity, claiming ‘we’re all obsessed with youth and beauty and success, it’s always been this way I guess but now it’s worse than ever’. That’s just one small line in a cut loaded with pearls of thought, but he always comes back to the line “I Still Love Rock and Roll” that you’ll bark along to. It’s fantastic.
Jangling Sparrows drop Psychedelic Pop in “Photograph” and lazy ballads via “Americana B Roll” but what Paul Edelman and the band really nail are short phrases. The writing spurs a rewind from multiple ‘what did he just sing?’ moments, and those come often in some songs you’ll keep forever.
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