Jeff Hanson’s songs have a stunning fragility, as though they might dissolve into a haze of dust and sighs if you were to breathe on them the wrong way. On his final album, the Midwestern singer/songwriter’s wraithlike choirboy falsetto glows within chamber arrangements (“Night”, “Careful”) and hovers like puffs of steam over spare acoustic guitar (“Your Only Son”, “This Friend of Mine”). “You were lost, I was too”, he murmurs on “Maryann”, evoking an androgynous tenderness that lingers long after his final notes.
More By Jeff Hanson
- 2005
- Lisa Germano
- John Vanderslice
- Denison Witmer
- Mojave 3