Nels Andrews - Sunday Shoes

The state of New Mexico is in the U.S. desert southwest, but it also straddles the Continental Divide. It has an entirely different landscape (and lifestyle) than you find in Texas to the east or Arizona to the west; it's high desert, hot in the summer but often quite cold in the winter. The music of Nels Andrews and his band, The El Paso Eyepatch, reflects that high, dry desert feeling in its spare, dry, lonesome sound and Andrews' spare, dry, lonesome lyrics.

Sunday Shoes isn't easy country music, with rhyming lyrics and soaring choruses and blazing electric guitars. But it goes places and illuminates emotions that that other type of song can never touch. Andrews' characters evoke Cormac McCarthy's emotionally gutshot men and women, and his spare, poetic lyrics just might stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the likes of Tom Waits and Townes Van Zandt ... time will tell. ~ Full Review at Green Man Review

Track Listing :

• Central Avenue Romance
• Weight
• Jesse's Mom
• Broken Conversation
• Milk and Honey
• Lilli Marlene
• Meadowlake
• Denim Scarecrow
• Petal to a Bee
• Big Oaks Sway

More information about Nels Andrews can be found at the Nels Andrews website