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August 16th, 2007
Okie Weiss & The Murder Ballads - (Independent)

Sciota, Peru
Reviewed by Steve Lalla

Recorded and packaged on a minimal to non-existent budget, U.S. transplant Okie Weiss and Montreal's own Murder Ballads may have no idea how to market themselves, but they can sure as hell play. While Joe Grass & The Murder Ballads are known for their Sunday night bluegrass weekly at local hole Cock'n'Bull, Okie Weiss is a well-travelled American songwriter, vocalist and guitarist who provides the Ballads with 10 original songs and introduces vocalist Dara Weiss and formidable mandolin and fiddle players to the equation. The result is a truly sublime marriage of bluegrass and country music's best melodies, elements of rock, soul and jazz, and masterful, emotive lyrics, bearing comparison to such giants as Neil Young, The Band or Gram Parsons.