Poor Thomas Stajcer. Joel Plaskett's had him locked up inside of
the bunker that is his New Scotland Yard studio, where Stajcer's the
in-house engineer. Wouldn't you know thought, that anyone with such good
ears would be a musician as well. While he's been slaving away on
Plaskett's various projects (and his own, he's also produced albums for
others), he's not just been working on his studio tan. Stajcer's debut
has arrived, and it's a full country opus. Looks like we got us another
country outlaw here, with some rough-and-ready real stuff, like those
Waylon and Willie hits of back in the day.
Stajcer's
album is a song cycle about the Sad Cowboy, one with a broken heart,
who's faced with the titular question. "Now there's a million pieces of
me, is there someone out there who can make me complete?" he wonders,
and there's no clear answer, only hope for the desperate. He takes us
through all the stages of hurt, from anger to hope of reconciliation to
despair, each one in a different shade of country. There are weepers and
barroom ballads, twangy rockers and one old-fashioned shit-kicker, How
Long Could I Wait?, which hints that our cowboy may be coming through
all right in the end.
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