Willy Porter – How to Rob a Bank (2009, Weasel Records)
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In the fall of 1995, I was just getting my life back in order after a horrific breakup that had driven me into self-imposed exile on a friend’s farm, and then wandering halfway across the country with my best friend in tow. I was preoccupied with healing, in other words — and in the perfect emotional state for making Willy Porter’s musical acquaintance through his medium-sized AAA hit, “Angry Words”:

I have cursed your name a thousand times or more
Your photograph lies deep at the bottom of my drawer
But when i looked at it this morning
I had no angry words to say
No angry words to say (more…)