David Fair
I'll Be Moe (Thick Syrup Records)
Besides co-founding the iconic punk band Half Japanese and organizing Shake More, Westminster's finest music festival, David Fair tells great stories. This two-disc set finds Fair telling 24 of them, many of them culled from his childhood in Michigan. In a droll voice over snappy background music and a smattering of sound effects, he riffs about pancake breakfasts, 4-H fairs, buried treasure, marbles, Halloween, snowballs, and various exploits. It sounds sappy as maple syrup, but Fair injects the proceedings with wit, an eye for quirky detail, and a sense of dramatic timing that places this project somewhere between Peanuts and This American Life.

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