Andy Friedman

Along with Tom Waits' "Glitter And Doom Live," Chuck Prophet's masterful "Let Freedom Ring!" and only four other albums released in 2009, The Associated Press highlighted Andy Friedman’s sophomore record "Weary Things" among it’s picks of "The Most Overlooked Albums Of The Year." Writer Steven Wine declared, "Friedman can write a lyric, and deliver it. . .he is not to be overlooked, that's for sure." His gag cartoons have been published in The New Yorker, but the songs written by “hard scrabble singer-songwriter” (Time Out New York) and “erudite redneck” (Boston Globe) Andy Friedman aren’t written for laughs. "Friedman has a mastery of wordy self-loathing that many white dudes with guitars would kill for," says Nashville Scene. With "Weary Things" Friedman -- who enjoys a reputation in his home of Brooklyn, NY as "perhaps the truest singer-songwriter in the borough," (Go! Brooklyn) -- presents a collection of “hard-tack country originals that bear the mark of a true artist.” (The New Yorker) Performing alone on a guitar, Friedman’s “dark, singular sense of humor. . .world weary delivery, and talent for synthesizing heartache” (Nashville Scene) takes center stage. “His songs demand that you sit down and listen to them," proclaims NPR, "which is why he’s such a hot live act."