Concert Review and Slideshow: American Music Club at the Record Bar, 5/5/08
American Music Club, with Expassionates and Olympic Size
May 5, 2008
The Record Bar
Better Than: Going to bed alone and waking up with a stranger
By SCOTT WILSON
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American Music Club songwriter and frontman Mark Eitzel has a voice like rancid caramel and a borderline-autistic stage presence. Which makes him the perfect delivery system for songs of drunken egress and sexual grief — his songs. The work of an archangel of regret. His voice, riding the accidentals and transcending sharp or flat to become pure, keening tone, is the wail of a monkey exhorting us to let down our tails and return to the trees, where we belong. But if people drove away from the Record Bar last night instead of nesting above the savanna, it wasn’t for lack of understanding between artist and audience.
