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The Woes Heaven Knows (self-released) Recommended for fans of this EVR show: Loisaida Cultural Wire The Woes are a band close to EVR's heart, in part because (full disclosure) their singer-songwriter Osei Essed is the host of Loisaida Cultural Wire, every Friday morning from 4 to 6 a.m. ET. But we would all over this album even without that connection, because Heaven Knows blends Delta blues, New Orleans jazz, old-fashioned country and post-modern soul into a rollicking, often raucous gumbo. Banjo, tuba, accordion, French horn, pedal steel and a Fender Rhodes electric piano float through the mix, along with an entire music store's worth of brass and percussion and a small army of folks singing, clapping and foot-stomping. Occasional moments of tranquility surface, like Essed's banjo-mandolin solo "Bohemia Lies By The Sea" and the Tom Waits-like waltz-time lullaby "Heaven Knows," and there's a certain melancholic wistfulness to the album as a whole. But rhythmic stompers like "The Secret" and the Latin-tinged "Sranan" are like an old-fashioned jazz funeral: there's joy inside the tears. -- Stewart Mason
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