Essential New Music: Daniel Bachman's "When The Roses Come Again"
Daniel Bachman’s latest album takes its name from a tune that’s been sung by Songs Of The Pioneers, Billy Bragg & Wilco and the Carter Family with Johnny Cash. In the song (sometimes called “When The Roses Bloom Again”), a dying soldier looks beyond his imminent demise to a moment when he’ll be reunited with his sweetheart. That might sound bleak, but next to Bachman’s last two records, it’s an optimistic sentiment. On 2021’s Axacan, he contemplated the cultural catastrophe that led to European folks like himself occupying Virginia; last year’s Almanac Behind plunged t...
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