8
Mar

David Gray — “Jackdaw” (from Draw the Line) — Jackdaw - Draw the Line (Deluxe Version)

One completely biased fan’s opinion (hint: mine mine mine) has it that the quality of Gray’s musical output has dipped dramatically in the years following his astonishing string of successes throughout the first half of the aughts. (Hardly an unforgivable sin, that: the same can easily be said of Tori Amos, Annie Lennox, and about a dozen other artists that I nonetheless love all the way down to my toenails.) Still, when Gray is on his game — as he is on this 2009 stunner, plumbing the murky magnificence of one of his favorite topics: love slipping through the flawed hero’s fingers — there ain’t nobody in his league.

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