Tom House, 'Til You've Seen Mine - 41m 52s

Tracks & Durations

1. Bull City Blues	2:47
2. Sister's Song	3:30
3. The Cold Hard Curve Of A Question Mark	2:58
4. Driving Round Houston	3:05
5. Where Will You Lay Your Head?	3:31
6. Long Hard Drinking	3:46
7. Canada	3:28
8. Elmer Smith	2:14
9. Malbourne Hotel	2:52
10. The Black Sheep	3:50
11. Down In The Hole	6:15
12. Letter From My Father	3:31

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Review

Largely because his band consists of a percussionist, a guitarist-mandolinist, and a background singer, Tom House is usually considered a contemporary, literary version of the early country performers featured on the Harry Smith anthology, sort of a Holy Modal Rounder with politics and poesy. But you need only hear such manic tracks as "Long Hard Drinking" and "Malbourne Hotel" to think of him also as a Dixie-fried Loudon Wainwright. He shares country's traditional preoccupation with family, albeit with a different spin ("Sister's Song," "Letter from My Father"). His characters draw a sharper line this time between outsiders ("Bull City Blues") and just plain ordinary folk with troubled hearts ("The Cold Hard Curve of a Question Mark"), while his imagery is as heart-stopping as ever ("You ain't seen tears 'til you seen mine / They run like razors in thin red lines"). And the addition of Nashville semi-stars like Pat McLaughlin, Sam Bush, and David Olney broadens House's sound without otherwise altering it. --John Morthland Restless & raw, Nashville "barroom singer" & published poet Tom House draws from the deep wells of country, folk, and old-timey music to back his unblinking-eye songwriting style.

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