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the white buffalo on the widow's walk

4/10/2020

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The White Buffalo (from the album On the Widow’s Walk available Spinefarm Records UK)  (by Bryant Liggett)
Jake Smith aka The White Buffalo is as baffled about life as the rest of us though he does not let on otherwise. “Problem Solution,” the album opener on his latest release, On the Widows Walk, states that people like to offer up the common advice to ‘follow your heart’ but The White Buffalo knows that most hearts remain ‘confused about everything’, the one thing he is sure of is that ‘life is gonna break your balls’. The cut is a therapeutic opener that moves from strong rock punch to bouncy piano rambles, advising we all should ‘just get through the day,” a theatrical beginning that sets a steady and hefty pace on a strong Roots Rock record of gritty ballads and grittier rockers.
“The Drifter” is a somber, barroom Gospel number calling out to the ‘saints, sinners, winners and losers’, “Come On Shorty” a break-up song about a place we’ve all been, “reaching for the bottom in the bottle and the beer and the blade’, while finding that happy ending at all costs.  Both “No History” and “Faster Than Fire” are loaded with drive, throwing it back to when Roots Rock was exploring a post-Punk world. Whether screaming out a rocker or closing the record with the piano ballad in “I Don’t Know A Thing About Love,” The White Buffalo’s words reveal he may not have all the answers but he sure is trying to figure them out, while his melodies accent Jake Smith as he is both tender and tough. On The Widows Walk is a record that bares it all and leaves the fluff behind. (by Bryant Liggett)
 
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