One artist I really enjoy is Hawksley Workman. He writes the best love-heartbreak songs, but I also love the variety he gives you. For example, from The Delicious Wolves:
1. "I'm jealous of your cigarette and how you wanna suck on it and not me"...
2. along with a beautiful love song like "You Me and the Weather":
I LOVE the way this song builds and builds. It's so classic "everything but the kitchen sink, and then give them the kitchen sink" school of songwriting. *
3. As well as a song like this, which possibly begins with a guy imaging his sweetheart dying in a car crash? (I assume she's not really dead, based on the last verse.)
so let me say that you look lovely in all of this
and let me say that the death that i fear
could in part be a fear that i'd lose you, your just as i found you
* "We could make the beginning of the song seem like it is all set-up, set-up, set-up, and then the kitchen sink falls in and the record gets big. I like that notion, production wise. So I said to Paul we need a third verse, everything you wrote is a set-up." Art Garfunkel talking about "Bridge Over Troubled Water."
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