Mojave

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Stuart Pearson's 2nd Album: America's Portrait Depicted in Songs Stuart Pearson is from Long Island, New York, and has been writing songs since he was seven. In 1995, his band "Through the Woods" was voted "Acoustic Band of the Year" by the National Academy of Songwriters. They were a five-piece band that used 19 instruments on stage, such as bicycle wheels, bowed guitars, a tuba, a glockenspiel, a hurdy-gurdy, a squeezebox, a banjo, hubcaps, a sax, a clarinet, and so on. Described in local magazines as "Dixieland Deathrock," the songs echoed two hundred years of American music as much as the winding attitudes of the Manhattan bands he loves. They played what is now called "Dark Americana." Stuart has lived in Los Angeles for many years. He has now come full circle with his second Dark Americana album titled "Mojave." These songs tell the story of the American dream through the eyes of crumbling desert towns. There are touches of Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Johnny Cash, and Leonard Cohen thrown into a bucket with ghosts from the 1800s. These are songs about bad people in bad situations making bad decisions.