WILLARD GRANT CONSPIRACY
Everything's Fine (Rykodisc/Slow River)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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Willard Grant Conspiracy writes beautiful songs that invoke images of open country roads, desolation, and small town decay, fueled by loneliness and melancholy and an absolutely amazing cast of musicians that change with each album, apparently depending on whoever wanders through the door of frontman Robert Fisher and songwriting partner Paul Austin's studio. Everything's Fine cast includes Edith Frost, Chris Brokaw, Vic Rawlings, and Pete Sutton, among others, and, despite the songs being about guns, gambling, and getting drunk, is by far the most borderline-joyful-sounding WGC release yet, as though resignation with the world is about to give way to absolute blind surrender.

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