“This music is an acquired taste, and not something everyone’s going to love. This is because Dyer performs with a sort of musical primitivism. Steve Martin
once titled one of his recordings, Comedy Is Not Pretty. You might also subtitle Dyer’s album Music Is (Sometimes) not pretty because this album is, quite frankly, really rough around the edges. However this approach is not at all a bad thing, if you can get used to it. It makes for real, earthy music. Dyer’s “John the Revelator,” for example, with its banjo and backing vocals, is a gutsy piece of music. It’s church music for people really serious about their religion. It is not the kind of sugarcane in cellophane you often hear on contemporary Christian music stations, that’s for darn sure.” Dan MacIntosh
http://www.antimusic.com/reviews/12/Tom_Dyer_-_I_Aint_Blue_Anymore.shtml
