February 2015 Artist of the Month: Haunt the House
From my review of HtH’s ‘Jack Rabbit Jones’: It has taken me nearly 3 months since I have first heard this record to write about it. That is not for lack of trying or listening extensively to this record. It’s because in listening I constantly beg the question of myself “how do I justify writing about this music where the songwriting is so much better than I could possibly hope to elucidate in words?”
I still find it difficult to place into words the feeling that this record and Will Houlihan’s songwriting has on me. It’s visceral, ethereal, beautiful, and moving. The addition of harmonies via Bessie and Amato, the swirling together of the acoustic guitar, accordion and upright bass…it all just takes me away.
In a month plagued by white snow blanketing the landscape, still pictures of New England houses and barns crossing across your retina, the beauty of how something can bring a howling wind (or a crowd at the local music venue) to a complete hush, I couldn’t see a more fitting time to have Haunt the House as our Artist of the Month here on Red Line Roots.
