HAZELWOOD VINYL PLASTICS / THE MISERABLE RICH

John Dear Mowing Club
(The Band of Daniel Johnston)

HAZ051

On "John Dear Mowing Club", de Boer wraps his gloomy but somehow comforting poetry with the downy fluff of Folk, Americana, Alternative County and a whole lot of hysterical silence. De Boer's proximity to the giants of this genre, such as Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Lou Reed, Daniel Johnston, or Townes van Zandt, who inspired a song on the album, is neither coincidental nor exhaustive. De Boer doesn't copy anything. Rather, he uses the palette of good taste of the masters. He dips his brush in and paints his own extraordinary utopia on the canvas.

"I took your pride and brought it to the pawnshop / It wasn’t worth a thing / I went out and gave it to the drunkman / He gave me his diamond ring.“