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Languorous Twang

Banjo riffs and eclectic roots

Sarah Todd

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Ghost Brain
Zen Horse Repair
Household Ink Records, 2008
$15.00 (CD)

Zen Horse Repair Ghost Brain Neal Crosbie“THEY WRITE haiku in Fresno,” Neil Crosbie announces during the song “Fresno.” It sounds like a bit of a throwaway line, but Crosbie’s telling the truth: Fresno, a city in California’s Central Valley that might be mistaken for a series of parking lots, is also the unlikely home to a thriving writing scene. Zen Horse Repair’s new album, Ghost Brain, dedicates itself to finding poetry in similarly unexpected places. The band’s dreamy, winking songs pay equal dues to the dharma, Freewheelin’-era Bob Dylan, Tom Waits’s spoken-word cool, and a brand of eccentric humor all its own.

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