William Elliott Whitmore, Ashes to Dust - 35m 1s

Tracks & Durations

1. Midnight	3:34
2. The Day the End Finally Came	4:18
3. When Push Comes to Love	3:50
4. Diggin' My Grave	4:06
5. The Buzzards Won't Cry	2:22
6. Sorest of Eyes	3:30
7. Lift My Jug (Song for Hub Cale)	3:36
8. Gravel Road	3:52
9. Porchlight	5:47

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Review

Though the gravel and dirt in his voice have earned this Iowa artist comparisons with Tom Waits, those with longer memories might recognize Captain Beefheart as a closer soundalike. With his stripped-down instrumentation of banjo and guitar--occasionally augmented by a bare-bones band--William Elliott Whitmore taps into the most primal themes of inescapable death and unforgivable sin. Amid the funereal blues of "Diggin' My Grave" and "The Buzzards Won't Cry" and the dying farmer's request on the closing "Porchlight" (punctuated with a tubercular-sounding cough as a coda), the comparatively tender "When Push Comes to Love" brings melodic relief and the classic country waltz "Sorest of Eyes" has a hint of a lilt. Otherwise, the artistry is as bleak as the Samuel Beckett epigram on the liner, as the music takes a cold, hard look at mortality and evokes the slimmest hope of redemption. --Don McLeese

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