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R. McGraw
Song and Void, Volume I
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The first outstanding thing you will notice about this album is the exquisite packaging. It is appropriate for the contents, for they are both ornate in their simplicity. The music will pick at the yolk of your psyche by reminding you of the fears, inadequate feelings, frustration, and joys of everyday life. It does not bother to include the rest of the world, instead it keeps it very personal, sticking to subjects that are universally personal. These are the songs we have all wanted to write while staring at a lone cloud in quiet reflection and speculation on the past and of the future.
Track listing:
01 Butter Hill
02 Natasha in Highschool
03 Find Me Then
04 Death is Not Peace
05 St. Anthony
06 To Keep You Safe
07 The Things That Devils Bring
08 Hopefully
09 The Masses and the Craftsmen
10 Are You Still
11 Navy Blue
12 The Many
13 Where Men Go
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The lyrical style of Richard McGraw is a unique blend of Leonard Cohen and Conway Savage, which is a huge complement to Mr. McGraw. It is very up-close and personal, as if he were in the room with you and speaking directly to you about your own past, the anxiety of mortality, and how or even if (gasp) you will be memorialized. Another complement was given to Mr. McGraw by the John Lennon songwriting contest in 2003 where he was a finalist.
Though most of this album was recorded in one or two takes back in the winter of 2004, it sounds as if it was done a thousand times to get that perfect feeling in the voice, to emote just how genuine these songs are. The songs were refined for over a year, and when the money ran out, the album was declared complete. Thank God the money ran out.
It would be a shame to miss out on this working class hero's labor of love, because it is so genuine, and pure. Musicians of this caliber need to be supported by lovers of music to show them that what they do matters, and we need more like them.
-Jason Hall 05/01/06
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