Ben Weaver - Mirepoix & Smoke

While The Ax in the Oak was more complex in its sound, Mirepoix & Smoke is a decidedly more bucolic affair; its songs are barely accompanied by more than Weaver's guitar or banjo and his voice, allowing for a more sensory experience of Weaver's signature lyrical poetics. You just don't hear Mirepoix & Smoke - you smell it, taste it, feel it and see it. This is a coming-of-age album for Weaver. He'd gone through a divorce, was working his first job in seven years and found that life for what it was, rather than the romanticized version of it he had written about before, was worth exploring.

 

1. Grass Doe

2. City Girl

3. Drag the Hills

4. East Jefferson

5. While I’m Gone

6. Maiden Cliff

7. Split Ends

8. 22 Shells

9. Rooster’s Wife

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