Another band I don't know much about. (The truth is, I don't know a lot about these bands. I just know what I like.) Blitzen Trapper is an 'indie' band, which I think means you don't get to use Auto-Tune, except maybe ironically, and they hail from Oregon, which you can actually hear in their music, if you can believe that. What all that means is they play rock that ranges from 'folk-informed' to ... 'grunge-informed,' I guess. Think: the Byrds or Bob Dylan to a less whiny Nirvana.This particular song is very Dylan-esque, from the surrealistic lyrics, to the musical delivery (including punctuating harmonica), even down to the vocal style.
It's a folk-rock number, with a dark, mysterious feel, dabbling in the supernatural, like an early twentieth-century fairy tale set to music. In it, the singer describes his transformation into a wolf. Not like a werewolf, but like, he wanders around until he's adopted by wolves. Then he grows fur, runs with the wolves for a while, and then wanders back to humanity and settles down and gets married. Really, I don't know what it means, but it sounds good when he sings it, and that's the important part.This was another example where it was tough to decide which song to pull from an album. The band does a great murder ballad called "Black River Killer", which is like "Folsom Prison Blues" without any of the repentance, and
I waffled back and forth, trying to decide which to post. I think "Furr" is probably the better tune, but if you have some way to check out the other one, give it a listen.Furr tends to lean more towards the folk-rock end of the spectrum, but they do have some harder numbers as well. It was released in 2008 on SubPop records.
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