Founding musician of The Honey Brothers Andrew Vladeck is a New York musician. He now releases his album ‘The Wheel,’ on End Up Records. His first album since 2006 sees him hotwiring his banjo to accompany his urban alt-folk tales. Vladeck has been compared to variously to Dylan, Townes Van Zandt and Springsteen. His lyrical style veers from fast paced protest song to slower observational ballads.
The opener ‘Hold Me Back,’ sets out his stall. Even ‘patched up with duct tape, we’re gonna keep this puppy ship shape,’ he declares. His electric banjo gives ‘You Can’t Kill Time,’ a Deliverance feel. This continues on the spooky blues track ‘21st Century,’ where everything’s gotten old! The award winning ‘The Songs You Inspire,’ is led by a harmonica intro and proffers the line, ‘I'm not a gambling man but I've made a running bet, the songs you don't deserve you don't deserve, yet.’ The title track incorporates some serious fingerpicking. ‘The wheel came full circle and ran me over,’ he laments. With ‘Picking Apples in Orange County,’ the fruit trees become the metaphor for a relationship. A change of pace is the album closer ‘Chinatown, Chinatown,’ with a dreamy slide sound, he concludes ‘It’s a long way to China from Chinatown.’
For a New Yorker, Vladeck’s pieces are unexpectedly pastoral. He breathes life into sounds of the past with amped up strings. His charming little pieces of alt country with a rock heart are worth investigation.
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Here is a link to a video recorded at his New York City show at Rockwood Music Hall last week.
The song is called Within Reach and will be on the next album he is currently writing and recording.
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