William Elliott Whitmore I'm with you

​William Elliott Whitmore (from the album I’m with You available on Bloodshot Records) (by Bryant Liggett)
Brooding and bold but with a chunk of charm, William Elliott Whitmore is the Folk dude for your Hard Rock pals. With a pre-war tone, Whitmore’s timeless sound makes it seem he could have ridden rail cars next to Woody Guthrie. I’m With You is his eighth full-length, a raw record from a Punk-Folkie with a story-tellers way, doling out life lessons and vivid tales like a wise old man. 
Twangy banjo and sad fiddle kick off the record with “Put It to Use”, a call to quit slacking as ‘time is comin’, put it to use’. “Solar Flare” is somber yet motivating, a funeral dirge both a sad tale and another call to make sure you don’t take any regrets to the grave while “MK Ultra Blues” finds Whitmore strumming his banjo and narrating the tale of the CIA’s mind experiments that included giving the human subjects LSD. “History” is a pedal steel heavy, weary ballad and “I’m Here”, a wrenching love song. The closer in “Black Iowa Dirt” is a jig ready fiddle tune sounding as if it was pulled from public domain, a Gospel-tinged homage from an Iowa farmer to the land he works. William Elliott Whitmore keeps it simple with a minimalist approach while lyrically laying it out, recording an album to keep in your back pocket only to bust it out as a lucky charm when you need it most.
 
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