MP3 Adam Selzer - Clark Street Carols

A mostly-acoustic rock album, full of character sketches, fake history lessons, and the odd sing-along anthem, all with the lyrical flair that distinguishes Selzer, who is also a published young adult novelist and professional ghost-buster.

12 MP3 Songs
FOLK: Folk Pop, ROCK: Acoustic



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Casting aside the cabaret feel of Suburban Post Modernist, Adam gets back to his singer-songwriter side with this collection of mostly acoustic numbers, backed by the ever-capable Revolving Door All-Stars. The album brings about the feeling of a vinyl rock album from the early 70s, the sound of a rollicking troubadour in the vein of Warren Zevon. There are fewer novelty songs here (just the lovely "intellectual country song about joan baez," followed by the funky, spooktacular "your neighborhood gives me the creeps"), but, like Zevon, even the sad songs have a bit of a sarastic smile behind them.

While a few songs are set in the fictitious Cornersville Trace (the setting not only of his previous album, but of his books), "Clark Street Carols" is more of a Chicago album, full of transient hotels, dying poets trying to get the last laugh, guys having affairs with a soldier's girlfriend, and convicted criminals plotting one more escape.

This is Adam's most solid, affecting album by a country mile.