Consumer Guide Album

David Thomas and the Wooden Birds: Monster Walks the Winter Lake [Twin/Tone, 1986]
David's in fine talk-show form on side one, peddling metaphysics and quoting dictionaries and wending his way through the associative title tale. The music follows along just right, and his monster postscripts are also fun. But side two is associative enough to make one wonder just how interesting one fellow's fantasy life can be. B