One might find it suspicious -- or at least curious -- that after two Barry Black LPs and a handful of Crooked Fingers releases, Eric Bachmann has finally released a record under his own name.



But then, unlike much of his earlier post-Archers of Loaf work, To The Races is defiantly stark, and hardly collaborative -- a marked difference from the guest-laden love-ins that have defined the past seven years of his career. It sounds as though Bachmann was searching for Nebraska here, and for better or worse, he seems to have found his way; not to say, necessarily, that he's been freed from his increasingly familiar holding pattern and all of its idiosyncracies, but it's clear that he's spent more time focusing on the little things, which as you'll hear, make all the difference this time around.

Eric Bachmann - "Lonesome Warrior"

And why not: Crooked Fingers - "A Little Bleeding" (from Ductape Radio, March 2000)

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