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Features Disc of the day
Evan Dando
Baby I’m Bored
(Setanta, 2003)
Lemonhead’s clean-‘n’solo return.
When I interviewed Evan Dando in 2003 he was keen to point out that the beer we were chugging down at 11am was of the alcohol-free variety. That he was also transforming the beer cans into dope bongs seemed of little consequence – here was a new, cleaner Evan, off the heavy drugs and booze since September 11, 2001. Dando had been due in court on September 12 that year, charged with opening a bale of hay on-stage and telling a cop to fuck off. “They said, 'Mr Dando? Your hay incident has been made completely irrelevant by today's historical events.’” That day did something to Evan Dando. It almost settled him down. The result was Baby I’m Bored. Following the jet-trash drive of 1996's vastly underrated Car Button Cloth Dando had intended to spend 1997 skiing. Instead he found himself in a New York crack den, looking after a friend’s two Rottweilers, and stopping the rats, real and imaginary, from chewing on the carpets. But in early 1998 he met and married Newcastle-born model (and BIB cover star) Elizabeth Moses and started rebuilding his life. After recording with John Convertino, Joey Burns and Howe Gelb from Giant Sand and Calexico, he started writing with Ben Kweller, Tom Morgan and Ben Lee and, following an endearingly ragged live album, Live At The Brattle Theatre, cut Baby I’m Bored with Jon Brion.
Beyond its basic artwork and bumper-sticker title, Baby I’m Bored is a sweetly assured album of dog-end days and fresh start mornings, an album that possesses the same low-key endorphin buzz as the best kind of Sunday morning hangover. In addition to Dando’s own illuminated country ballads of recrimination and remission, the most striking moments are in his interpretations of Ben Lee’s All My Life and Hard Drive, sweetly melodic mantras of amelioration that Dando occupies as if they were his own compositions and not just the perfectly crafted gifts of a loving fan. Not that MOJO would ever wish a hangover on anyone but, when it comes, here is the perfect elixir.
Andrew Male
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 01/12/2008
Further Listening
The Lemonheads – Car Button Cloth (East/West, 1996)
Ben Kweller – Sha Sha (Big Hassle, 2002)
Silver Jews – Bright Flight (Drag City, 2001)
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Weird. All these years, I thought that was Evan Dando on the cover.
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