” and “The Drunkard’s Doom” at Shank, showing that, like Dylan before him, he can perform and mine folk songs not only to immerse himself in tradition but to feel his the syllables of tradition forming on the vocal chords that create the sounds of his own songs....
David Bazan sounds nothing like Mitchell, but he’s also made a career off of songs filled with emotional clarity. With his band Pedro the Lion, the now 43-year-old frontman’s lyrics maturely dealt with knotty issues of faith, political upheaval, love, sex, and crippling doubt, and were...