Peter Himmelman

“Some things in life go smooth/But they're mostly in a dream,” Peter Himmelman sings in
an irritated growl in the opening title song, a slow-blues crawl through razor-wire slide
guitar. There isn't much that goes easy in the next twelve songs. But Himmelman, who has
made sharp-dressed, stiletto-wit pop records since the mid-Eighties, is no quitter. For
every step he takes toward giving up -- the bleak longing of “The Ship of Last H... More >