Here’s how you tell a story: So, this guy with a beard and a guitar from Philadelphia goes out and starts singing to those who would listen. In doing so he starts to establish himself as a folk singer and a purveyor of “roots music.”

Christopher Bohn (that guy mentioned above) goes to some coffeehouses and other haunts of the thinking folk in Pennsylvania and catches a few more ears with tunes such as “Victoria Amen.” That tune and others from Conspiracy of Sleep are good listening tunes. “Run Rabbit Run” is an interesting effort, to say the least. Listen closely, because that’s what Bohn hopes the audience members will do.

I enjoy artists who use good poetry to explain about themselves. Here’s what Bohn offers, on a Web site:

The god of dirt
came up to me many times and said
so many wise and delectable things, I lay
on the grass listening
to his dog voice,
crow voice,
frog voice; now,
he said, and now,

and never once mentioned forever,

-from “One or Two Things” Mary Oliver

I once read a review of a rock album that asked, “Does the world need another rock band?” I answered “yes.”

I ask now, “Does the world need another folk singer?” I answer, “Always.”

Christopher Bohn on MySpace

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