WOODEN WAND - briarwood LP Progressive as the songs come bleeding

as the songs come bleeding out of the speakers while you scream down the highway

Christian Savill (guitar) and the band's primary songwriter Neil Halstead (vocals

Morgan implements conventions from bygone eras to craft work that honors and expands on those traditions

Young Emmett Kelly’s clean electric guitar lines roam within the web and suddenly shine

more explicitly exploring jazz than earlier recordings

WOODEN WAND - briarwood LP Progressive as the songs come bleedingWhen James Jackson Toth, aka Wooden Wand, was invited to record with his friend Duquette Johnston (formerly of Verbena) and his band the Gum Creek Killers, his first impulse was to send a track from his legendary archives of unreleased material. But Duquette suggested Toth visit him in Birmingham and they record both sides of the split 7" from scratch, with the same band at Ol Elegante Studios in Homewood, AL. Toth claimed that it was one of the most