Blood Oaths of the New Blues - Wooden Wand
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  • Summary: The second release on Fire Records for James Jackson Toth under the Wooden Wand name sees the singer-songwriter working with a band that includes David Hickox, Janet Elizabeth Simpson, Jody Nelson, Brad Davis, and Les Nuby III.
  • Record Label: Fire Records
  • Genre(s): Country, Americana, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Indie Folk
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  1. Alternative Press
    Jan 10, 2013
    80
    Toth makes a greater effort to rein together all these different musical approaches into a crystalline whole. By doing so, he's inflated his songwriting even further, helping it reach greater altitudes. [Feb 2013, p.94]
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  2. All Music Guide
    Jan 10, 2013
    80
    Blood Oaths is perhaps the closest to plainclothes Wooden Wand has come.
  3. Pitchfork
    Jan 10, 2013
    79
    If you've liked anything Toth has done in the past, whether that's the tunes he's written or the textures he's conjured, Blood Oaths offers both, perhaps better than ever before. If you've dismissed him, though, this is the sound of one musician's prolific and mercurial path, reaching delightful new highs.

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