“Mr. Pitiful“
from the album Unfamiliar Faces
2008
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California balladeer (and Jack Johnson protégé) Matt Costa loads Unfamiliar Faces, his second full-length with folk, indie, and psych-rock tunes — some hits (”Mr. Pitiful”), some misses (”Lilacs”). With a plucky guitar, harmonica, piano, and sun-burnished vocals, Costa knows how to work gospel’s euphoric uplift into secular music, though he follows the blueprints of his idol (a ”Hurdy Gurdy Man”-era Donovan) a tad too closely. Thankfully, his old-timey charms don’t overwhelm; it’s more a reminder that in the Age of iPod, crackly vinyl is still worth cherishing.

~ Adrienne Day, EW.com

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2 Responses

  1. ToKissTheCook

    Good one- Nice guy but I think I pissed him off once by telling him how much I liked a song of Jack Johnson’s he had contributed to (Lullaby). Flip that, Reverse it. Whoops. Don’t think I was the first person to make that mistake though and he rolled with it.