专辑简介

In a town where tunesmiths struggle to be merely clever, Tom House is a genuine poet, having published 400 verses during the '80s alone. It's been five years since House's last recording, and tonight's release of Been There and Gone is an important occasion for anyone who loves to listen to lyrics. Gone ranges from the Prine-esque ramble of "Boatrock Boulevard" to the chilling opening lines of "Some Women": "I think there are some women who should not have children / And I suppose my mother was one of them." "Jesus Christ is Born" is a carol unlike any you've heard, and "Sawbones" evokes so much of what Greil Marcus called "the old, weird America" that it could be released as a 78 RPM single.

— Joe Nolan