…Bones of Trees is Tim Grimm’s 13th album, and it is a beautifully crafted collection of personal, historical and political songs.
The album’s title is taken from the mysterious imagery, the song setting out the album’s underlying themes of wood and how the past influences the present. ‘Getting Older’ relates the lives of three men and the way we spend our limited time on earth. The Celtic-fused ‘Mists of Enninstymon’ touches on past emigration, Grimm joined by Glasgow’s Paul McKenna on vocals and the pipes of Dougie Pincock. ‘Hunting Shack’ is built on a great Johnny Cash rhythm, and Sergio Webb’s dobro helps him cover Susan Werner’s ‘Barbed Wire Boys’. Both tracks reflect on a distant rural Midwest. There’s a good-natured,…