Brave choices indeed, considering that there are already versions considered definitive. The covers are Hank Williams Sr’s The Angel of Death, Jerry Irby’s Driving Nails in My Coffin and th George Jones classic He Stopped Loving Her Today. With co-producer George Grant they have brought a broad range of players into the studio to help them realise these songs, which are a mix of originals with a trio of covers that fit the overall mood. Yet it would be wrong to label the music dour and there is a lot of variation over the album’s sixteen tracks. He has a sonorous voice that is well suited to the term and indeed the title track, and the song Six Feet From Eternit,y aren’t exactly the cheerful stuff of country radio. Sinnis is a New York musician who started out as a member of punk band Apostates and who has now turned his direction towards a blend of dark country and roots rock something he has termed “cemetery and western”.
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