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“We knew the moment he opened his mouth that we had to find a way to share him with you.”
-ACOUSTIC CONVERSATIONS
"Dustin Pattison's pure voice and simple acoustic style are stripped-down folk at it's finest. Yet while his melodic timbre resonates serenely, the themes of Pattison's well-crafted songs tread sneakily on fragmented ground--swinging from Irish lullabies, to a life history of Jesus, to a tale about burying a woman in his backyard and confessing to a priest. The effect should be jarring, but although the stories are schizophrenic the sentiment is somber, peaceful even. As Pattison sings "You go get the bottles, and I'll go get the gun...One by one by one, we will blow them away" in a Bonnie-and-Clyde style tale of longing for freedom ("One by One"), his simple, sad voice makes you somehow sympathize with those desperate words, as if, in a different time, they could have been your own."
-Annie Bethancourt, WILLAMETTE WEEK
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