Abner Jay - True Story Of Abner Jay
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The semi-legal / -bootleg label Mississippi Records released this collection from raconteur and one-man- band troubadour Abner Jay. Songs such as “Cocaine” and “Vietnam” are equal parts protest folk, country- blues ballads, and outsider treatises. Jay sings his hard-times tales with deep soul and the haunted lilt inherent to men of vision. The songs are all stomped out by Jay and Jay alone - on electric banjo, harmonica, and bass drum - and illuminate both the artist’s pure talent and his strikingly idiosyncratic aesthetic. The True Story Of is about as fine a collection as one could hope for from this nearly forgotten American oddity.
