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James Jackson Toth
Waiting in Vain
Genres: Country, Alternative Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (12) - Disc #1
1. Nothing Hides
2. Doreen
3. The Banquet Styx
4. Look In On Me
5. Becoming Faust
6. Poison Oak
7. Midnight Watchman
8. Beulah The Good
9. The Park
10. Do What You Can
11. My Paint
12. The Dome

CD Details

All Artists: James Jackson Toth
Title: Waiting in Vain
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Rykodisc
Original Release Date: 1/1/2008
Re-Release Date: 7/29/2008
Genres: Country, Alternative Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock
Styles: Americana, Classic Country, Indie & Lo-Fi, Traditional Folk
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 014431094521, 014431094569

Synopsis

Product Description

For his solo debut, Tennessee-based James Jackson Toth has conjured a mysterious, alluring world; Toth's scenarios are intriguingly tawdry and his sounds tantalizing, with layered, almost-dreamlike harmonies; touches of blues, country and soul and the occasional flash of punk swagger. He assumes the role of storyteller, maybe even confessor, spinning inter-linked tales of hope and misfortune, romantic trials and spiritual yearning.

Waiting In Vain is the first album that Toth, long a cult figure, has released as a solo artist, and it marks a new beginning for him. (For several years he experimented with a folk-psychedelic rock hybrid, putting out numerous discs under variations of the name Wooden Wand.)

James Jackson Toth's evolution continues when he hits the road and this strange and compelling world he's brought to life will be waiting for you.

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CD Reviews

About time something of substance

eyeontheball | Freehold, New Jersey | 07/30/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"A record you can listen to to suit your own style and or mood; even changing for myself day to day. Has anyone ever used the word "customizable" to describe a cd. I hear a lot of the early solo efforts of John Lennon in this great record. The lyrics are personal, intellegent and approachable. The music is light and heavy at the same time. The feel is distinct and vague at the same time. It has Lennon's precise cynical flavor, and also like Lennon it is almost done tongue in cheek. I don't want to use the overused phrase refreshing here, but someone has taken my thesauraus. But "Waiting In Vain is truly refreshing."

James Jackson Toth - Waiting in Vain

S. D. Mason | Greenville, NC | 09/05/2008

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Waiting in Vain (2008, Rykodisc) James Jackson Toth's first studio album. ***

As with so many other albums, it would have been so much better had some of the excess been cut off. It starts off wonderfully, with the easy-listening of "Nothing Hides" and "Doreen," moving straight into the album's pinnacle, the slow and comforting "Look in on Me." Surely the accents he adds occassionally are unwarranted, but Toth's wide array of veritable influences (Mick Jagger, what?!) are interesting to listen to. But the sheer length of the album mixed with some lazy production pull Waiting in Vain down from the heighth it should have achieved."