Monday, July 17, 2006
HAMELL ON TRIAL - Songs For Parents Who Enjoy DrugsPursuing an original, unique folk-rock style that positively bristles with punk energy and attitude, singer/songwriter Ed Hamell has what Frank Zappa once called "no commercial potential." A self-proclaimed loudmouth with leftist tendencies, Hamell has never shied away from confrontation, both with himself and the powers that be. Songs For Parents Who Enjoy Drugs, Hamell's sixth studio effort, finds the songwriter's observations as keen and as deadly as ever.
"Inquiring Minds," a conversation between father and son, is spot-on -- funny and smart and all-too-true-to-life for many of us of the "lost generation" between the boomers and Gen X, while "Values" reveals the child's innocent wisdom.
Hamell likes to tease the bear at least once per album and "Coulter's Snatch" takes the fight to the Conservative Right's reigning bottle-blonde pin-up queen. The artist's story-songs are generally populated by the junkies, dealers, whores and petty criminals that exist on the fringes of polite society, and most songs eschew political correctness in favor of sex, drugs or political binges.
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I've not heard of this guy before, but the Coulter song and some others sound intriguing.
