Taste Test: War & Peace Party treads water with the ‘Third Eye Blues’
The folky singer-songwriter nearly drowns from his heartache.
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Brokenhearted blues are the worst kind of blues. It’s a kind of bodily injury from which you don’t think you’ll ever recover. Folky singer-songwriter War & Peace Party (real name Nick Kurth) manages as best he can, at least when he’s got an acoustic guitar in tow. On his song “Third Eye Blues,” he pours his heart onto a bluesy, finger-picker, as he wrangles the pieces into his heart back into a jagged, mud-spattered mosaic. “I can’t see like I used to / Got a place, got no view / There’s a number I can call / but I can’t get through,” he sputters. Really nothing in the world, along his teary gaze, makes much sense at all. So, all he can do is sit, strum his guitar, and wonder for better days.
“Third Eye Blues” is ripped from Kurth’s new EP, Trouble in Paradise, out everywhere now.
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