ALBUM REVIEW: David Olney's Easter EP

Quick, how many Easter-themed albums can you name that don't involve the Messiah? I thought so. Even if you can name some, none have David Olney's trade-mark hardbitten squint about them.

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ALBUM REVIEW: David Olney's Easter EP

POSTED: Friday, April 6, 2012, 3:30 PM

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David Olney
The Stone
(Deadbeet)

Quick, how many Easter-themed albums can you name that don’t involve the Messiah? I thought so. Even if you can name some, none have David Olney’s trade-mark hardbitten squint about them.

Olney is a empathetic interpreter of stories, but he does his best work when there is acid and sizzle in the retelling. This video, “Jerusalem Tomorrow” is how the EP starts, with an apostle just joining the team of a traveling healer. “Brains” rocks hard with blues harp wailing over the tough cop interrogating Judas, screeching over and over, “I wanna know who’s the brains behind this operation!” Olney posits this as one more explanation of the legendary betrayal.

It occurs to me that I wish I had Olney’s gift for inhabiting another creature’s mind. Projecting yourself into Barabbas the thief or being the soldier guarding the tomb who has to man-up and report to his superiors that the stone has been moved and the body is gone, these are good concepts. But speaking as the ass that Jesus rode (“Brays”)? That, my friends, is genius.

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