Here are a few key items that will attract a significant number of fans to this Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter: Tom Waits, piano, Bukowski, off-center, blues, Love & Alcohol. [To be honest, Weinstein had this listener hooked by mentioning Tom Waits.]
From the first bars of “Every New York” Weinstein shows why listeners make the Waits comparison. This is street-level piano blues that might even stretch the genre a bit. Add the flavor of the thumping and groaning of acoustic bass to the club-crowd sounds and what do you get? You get music that makes some people say “Oh, yeah, I’ve been there.”
“One More Blues” has a different feel, if only because of the guitar. Then there is “Song a Drunk Man Sings.” Featuring some great harmonica and a beat that snaps as it should, this tune will attract music aficionados and professional drinkers alike.
Check Weinstein’s latest on the CD Love & Alcohol. Listen to “She Do Not Listen” and find the piano skills of a teacher and student, a player and sleeper (in the sense of they ain’t hits yet).
List of key points about Josh Weinstein: family of musicians; English major; grad school; real-world writer/editor; quit job to devote time to music. Check him out in Maryland, Massachusetts and New York. If you can’t be there, he will be coming to a city near you.
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