Joshua James: Build Me This

At 25 Joshua James might still be considered a youngster, but his third album Build Me This shows far more life experience than his birth certificate shows. Opener Coal War is a rhythm straight out of the Paul Simon school, but James is no copy cat - ther track gets louder and louder before returning to the mellow tempo. With Magazine he comes into his own, a lament augmented by tasty violin flourishes. Being from Nebraska he is familiar with the great wide open and it shows in tracks like We...

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