The good people over at Hearya.com have a vast library of quality content. This is from their in studio session with AA Bondy. Mr. Bondy's record last year, When the Devil's Loose, was one of my top 10 records of 2009. He's got a face almost like Woody Guthrie's, a whiskey and honey-soaked voice, and his songs feature alt-country touchstones like harmonica, national guitar, and pedal steel. While I am a sucker for the product of those collective elements, Bondy achieves something both bigger and smaller than the sum of the parts. His restraint in both singing and songwriting produce the subtle kind of beauty Terrence Malick captures visually. It's like being wrapped in the warm air of a summer breeze and knowing you've got time and space to do nothing but enjoy it. There's still the obligatory heartbreak and hardships of the genre, but it's comforting and soothing in a way very few records are.
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