Banjo-bangin' trad-folk revivalists Michael Merenda and Pierce Woodward have spent the last couple of years traveling across this sometimes-great land of ours with their band the Mammals, picking and strumming their way back to an America that disappears a little more every day. That reverence for a vanishing past makes their righteous anger about these interesting times just that much more stinging. On their respective new solo records, each sings truth to power like a dust bowl poet railing against robber barons of yore. 'Point your antenna straight at the sky, hear the privileged white people broadcast last minute lies,' Merenda sings on Election Day (Humble Abode Music). On Leave No Millionaire Behind (Long Run), Woodward reminds our born-again prez that these days 'if Jesus came to America, he would be deported. He would have no trial and it wouldn't be reported.' Woody would be proud.
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Pierce has a style all his own - strong, disconcerting words, often on the wild side.  Listen closely.
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In a time when so many folk artists are recording safe, boring "folk" albums, it is a pleasure to hear an artist with something to say and who says it well.
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like a modern day thomas paine, pierce woodward has pubished his own broadside regarding americas own king george, biting  and truthful. a must hear this election year
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