VII LP

Album Details

Americana stalwarts Blitzen Trapper's seventh studio album is appropriately titled VII. Their first release for Vagrant Records is full of the vivid folk-rock-campfire-tales front-man Eric Earley is so well known for. VII moves effortlessly from track to track allowing Earley to paint the colorful pictures that play in our head while singing along. "…there are those songs I keep writing over and over again, "Ever Loved Once" with all its regrets and tragic lost love, "Don't Be A Stranger" it's hopeful cousin but they all still point to the same worn out place in the heart of old E. Earley. And hey, we all have that place, that worn spot on the heart like the chew canister circle on the back pocket of blue jeans, or that one shred in the green felt of the table where you ground the stick in too hard… May these songs minster in ways mysterious and eternal, or at least maybe make you shake a hip."