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Andy Friedman
New York, NY
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His gag cartoons have been published in The New Yorker, but the songs written by "hard scrabble singer-songwriter" (Time Out New York) and "erudite redneck" (Boston Globe) Andy Friedman aren’t written for laughs. "Friedman has a mastery of wordy self-loathing that many white dudes with guitars would kill for," says Nashville Scene. The title track to his 2006 debut studio album, Taken Man (City Salvage Records/Rounder Europe), found itself at #30 on the New York Post's "207 Best Songs To Download in 2007." Other songwriters to appear on that extensive list included Amy Winehouse ("Rehab" #1), Andrew Bird ("Spare-Oh’s" #31), Neil Young ("Dirty Old Man" #65), and Bruce Springsteen ("Radio Nowhere" #114).
Earlier this year, Friedman - who enjoys a reputation in his home of Brooklyn, NY as "perhaps the truest singer-songwriter in the borough," (Go! Brooklyn) - released his second studio album, Weary Things (City Salvage/Kindred Rhythm). A collection of "hard-tack country originals that bear the mark of a true artist," (The New Yorker) Weary Things has thus far garnered a substantial amount of national critical praise in print and online, while appearances on NPR's coveted Mountain Stage and a feature interview on XM's Bob Edwards Show have further solidified Friedman's growing reputation as a "songwriter with an engagingly singular voice," (Philadelphia Inquirer) and a "dusty, paint-splattered Americana sage." (Rochester News & Democrat)
Old Crow Medicine Show's Ketch Secor, in a poem written about Friedman's latest work, called Weary Things a "certified, genuine American tune." Indie-folk guru Sufjan Stevens proclaimed, "I've always wanted to be Andy Friedman." In the album’s liner notes written by David Gates, the Pulitzer-nominated author (Jernigan) and former senior arts writer for Newsweek sets the tone for Weary Things: "What [Friedman] sees through his windshield isn’t Greil Marcus’s Old Weird America, but the weird new America where the pastoral is no longer pure."
In a live setting, whether performing solo, with his bar band The Other Failures - who represent "one of the most respected bands on the Brooklyn scene," (Cleveland Free Times) - or with his recently assembled folk band The Golden Winners, Friedman’s "dark, singular sense of humor. . .world weary delivery, and talent for synthesizing heartache" (Nashville Scene) rises to the surface to take center stage. "His songs demand that you sit down and listen to them, which is why he’s such a hot live act." (NPR) He has been called "The King of Art Country" (Minneapolis City Pages) and even "a hillbilly Leonard Cohen," (Athens News) but according to The Hartford Advocate, "has probably more in common with Kris Kristofferson, Tom Waits and even Shane MacGowan of the Pogues, just in terms of a shale-voiced and poetic take of spiritual decrepitude."
While his songs are anything but funny, Friedman has published over a dozen gag cartoons in The New Yorker under the pseudonym Larry Hat, and as an illustrator (published under his own name), Friedman’s drawings appear regularly in literally hundreds of magazines and newspapers worldwide, including a recent cover for the New York Times Magazine. |
