New music: Wooden Dinosaur - "I Shot A Gun"
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 7:27AM Words // Scott Pingeton
Wooden Dinosaur's Nearly Lost Stars was one of my favorite albums of 2010. A perfect marriage of casual backporch folk instrumentation and songwriter Michael Roberts' poignant, melody-wrapped lyrics. Since the release of Nearly Lost Stars, Roberts has been busy. He's played a bunch of shows with Wooden Dinosaur, toured as a member of The David Wax Museum (including stops at Newport Folk and NPR's Tiny Desk Series), got married, signed to Last Kind Word Records and still carved out enough time to work on the next Wooden Dinosaur record. "I Shot A Gun" is the first track off that upcoming album, and it picks right up where Nearly Lost Stars left off. Shuffling percussion, appalachain fiddle and mounful pedal-steel guitar propel the song, which features plainspoken lyrics that recall Townes Van Zandt (at least to my ears). I officially cannot wait to hear what Roberts & co. have in store for the rest of the album which drops February 7. Watch the video for "I Shot A Gun" below and get excited:
