This reviewer was a friend of Paul Quarrington’s and played on two of the tracks included here. That personal connection should make a review off limits. But this solo debut album by the award-winning writer-musician, who succumbed to cancer in January, is simply too good to pass up. Confessionals like “All the Stars” and “This Old Body” and the wry talking-blues numbers “Big Ol’ Bass” and “Hello Jim,” the latter recorded just three days before he died, trigger a mix of tears, laughter and reflection—just like the best of Paul’s novels.
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