Geoff Berner
Whiskey Rabbi
(Black Hen)
Victoria, BC’s nouveau-klezmer troubadour continues his unrelenting campaign against boredom and his own liver on this, his third release. He slurs through the opening title track, setting the mood for the whiskey-filled romp to come. Berner’s dark humour is punctuated by his trademark drunk- en accordion button-mashing in the rollicking “Drunk All Day” and “Lucky Goddamn Jew.” The touching “Unlistenable Song” is the only lighthearted respite from this black comedy.
—Sean MacGillivray
This article appears in Dec 6-12, 2007.
