Blitzen Trapper Holy Smokes Future Jokes (STANDARD EDITION - BLACK VINYL) Holiday & Wedding I’m fortunate to count a

I’m fortunate to count a lot of world class songwriters as good pals and I wanted to shine a little light on some of my favorite examples of their work

and hit the perfect spot between heartbreakingly sweet and just plain odd

In the late 1970s

' a captivating vinyl release that showcases their unique sound within the world music genre

The release represents a sublime distillation of their shared musical essence

Blitzen Trapper Holy Smokes Future Jokes (STANDARD EDITION - BLACK VINYL) Holiday & Wedding I’m fortunate to count aSinger songwriters have been tackling existential questions about life and death since time immemorial or at least the 1960s. But when it came to Blitzen Trappers newest album, Holy Smokes Future Jokes, front man Eric Earley looked beyond mere existenceor even the end of itto contend with grander cosmic explorations: namely, the intermediate period between a persons separate lives on earth, and what it means to escape the cycle of birth and rebirth,