Silver tears

"Tasjan's command of traditional country, folk, blues, and all related rock hybrids seems well-suited for Music City; he blends elements of these genres with a distinctly '70s songwriting manner that can recall the likes of Harry Nilsson, Robbie Robertson, and Randy Newman, among others ... Silver Tears is steeped in musical knowledge but delivered with a lighthearted touch and plenty of personality ("I'm worth at least a million and I barely have a dime"). As friend and musician BP Fallon remarks with affection in the album's liner notes, "Aaron could've been a Wilbury just fine."".

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"Less rhinestone cowboy than maverick journeyman, alt.country songwriter Aaron Lee Tasjan's CV covers everything from glam-punk to Southern rock, with all musical stations in between leading to Silver Tears, a gloriously diverse collection of wittily-wrought, emotionally acute songs tracking contemporary sensibilities.There are mesmeric, cyclical country-blues about "howling in the darkness"; twangsome country-rockers about love and loss; and swamp-funk cakewalks musing on how success is "about being better than yourself", rather than everyone else. The latter slice of hard-earned wisdom is echoed elsewhere in ruminations upon the peripatetic life of a musician ("Going nowhere is adventure you dare not refuse") and songwriters' addiction to recycling pain and hardship as song-fodder, an admission quirkily set, in "Hard Life", to a ragtime shuffle akin to Nilsson's "Coconut". Endlessly entertaining".

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