Photo by Bug Carrasco

Many see the literal darkness behind death, but Dougie Poole is finding silver linings in it on “Beth David Cemetery”, the latest preview from the Brooklyn country crooner’s new album, The Rainbow Wheel of (you got it!) Death. There’s not much goth energy here, and rather the listen finds better comfort in the boozy throes of grief right next to a cold one (the beer form, not the body form…,) toss in some hors d’oeurves at the post-memorial gathering. Poole poetically paints a wistful portrait of the the void in his own wry warmth as he hops on the Megabus and heads home to bury another one, kind of making you look forward to being the star of this occasion some day, too.

Photo by Bug Carrasco

Dougie Poole’s The Rainbow Wheel of Death will be released February 24th on Wharf Cat Records.