An Analog Man In A Digital World – Kurt Hagardorn (reviewed by Dave Franklin)

Man, I know how you feel. I, too, often feel like the titular Analog Man in a Digital World, perhaps even a moonshine guy in a six-pack world, but that’s another story for another time.

Kurt Hagardorn has been doing this for a while, is friends with the great and good and knows how to pen a tune. Actually, in this case, he knows how to pen ten in a row, as this new one sounds like nothing short of a “best of…” or “singles collection.” When was the last time that you came across an album that complete and well rounded? (Well, Del Amitri’s Waking Hours, aside.)

Whether bopping to the saxy and seductive Caveat Emporer, kicking out some Tom Petty-esque, foot-on-the-monitor groovers like 767, or laying down the slinky, staccato shuffles and bluesy beats of Evangeline Hop, he has it covered. And “it”, in this case being anything and everything in the Americana, rootsy, country-rock, alt-country realm.

You name it, he has what the doctor ordered.