Music
All albums released by Shade Tree Records and available for download from Bandcamp and other fine online stores. Which of course is no substitute for the real thing - but for that you gotta come to a show!
Hobo Postcards (2011)
The newest album and the first to include electric guitars and a full rhythm section. Recorded in four sleepless days and nights in the basements and tunnels of East Vancouver. Tracks 2, 7 & 8 feature the legendary STROH VIOLIN (a rare and body-less violin with a resonator and a phonograph horn to produce the sound).
"This is raucous music that knows how to get in your face right from the off...think The Pogues at their most engaging, singing early Tom Waits. There's a new songwriter on the block, and he's going to be around for quite some time, like or not." - Leicester Bangs (UK)
"A glimpse into the world beyond the train tracks...Hobo Postcards is a love letter to the open road, turning a patchwork of folk, rock, punk, jazz and Celtic influences into a chronicle of life in the underground." - The Boundary Communicator
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The Treehouses & Trainsmoke EP (2010)
A quick blast of an EP, set down in three days in between tree planting contracts. Features new versions of some older songs and gang vocals recorded in Leeside Park, underneath East Hastings in Vancouver. The physical version comes with a songbook zine that gives chords and lyrics to all the songs - but you gotta come to a show to get it!
"That slap-dash, DIY approach shows up in Andrew's music, which he calls "folk-noir." It presents a street-level view of the world through fiddle and acoustic guitar and stories of poverty and hardship. His latest EP, Treehouses & Trainsmoke, even features chord changes in the liner notes to help others learn the songs." - Lewis Kelly, Vue Weekly
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Vagabonds & Wastrels (2009)
"A two-sided record on a one-sided disc, the album begins with familiar folk fare: love, drunks, killers and working-class heroes, before descending into an underworld of faeries, ghosts and madness." - BC Musician Magazine
"A wordsmith and poet...Andrew has harnessed his muse on hobos, heartsick pilgrims and the demons left on the highway." - Americana UK
"The easy strumming, underlined by fiddling, plays in washes of acccordion and organ and soon you're sticking your thumb out on the Highway of Tears or sharing a bottle with Kerouac. An album that not only tips its hat to Tom Waits and Utah Phillips, but also asks them to sit down for a while. " - Carolyn Nikodym, Vue Weekly