{"id":531,"date":"2011-05-26T22:39:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T21:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=531"},"modified":"2025-05-17T19:06:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T18:06:18","slug":"rob-morsberger-show-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=531","title":{"rendered":"Rob Morsberger &#8211; show review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Boston Herald describes his latest release as the &#8220;album is the kind of hyperliterate pop-inflected singer-songwriter outing that went out of style when Warren Zevon died. He can write a hook that could make angels weep.&#8221; The Boston Globe: &#8220;Think &#8216;storyteller&#8217; with a literary, cinematic, intellectual bent.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had never heard of Rob Morsberger when he stepped onto the stage as the opening act for Crash Test Dummies &#8211; barefoot, wearing jeans and a muted Hawaiian shirt, and a straw hat with the brim turned upward. He smiled at the silent audience in the half-filled coffeehouse, and then laughed, &#8220;You guys are so quiet&#8230;&#8221; Then he began to play the electric piano, singing a plaintive, heartfelt melody, tapping out the rhythm with his bare foot. For about 4 minutes, he seemed to be lost in himself, and then emerged to polite applause. I was hooked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/robmorsberger.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Morsberger&#8217;s website<\/a>, he describes himself as having &#8220;rightfully drawn comparisons to Tom Waits, Rufus Wainwright, Bob Dylan, Robbie Robertson and Warren Zevon (mixed with a touch of Randy Newman\u2019s absurdist wit). &nbsp;I can hear Rufus Wainwright, but as for me, I heard him alternately channeling Elvis Costello and XTC&#8217;s Andy Partridge &#8211; both, coincidentally a couple of my favorite songwriters and lyricists. &nbsp;I managed to capture some of it on film, but the videos from his own YouTube channel are much superior in quality. &nbsp;See if you can hear what I heard in this tune, which Morsberger introduced at length, but eventually admitted, &#8220;I just wanted a song that incorporated the phrase &#8216;I&#8217;m still here, you bastards'&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Chronicle Of A Literal Man\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c7P0GTWZBxg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With a string of film and TV soundtrack credits, Morsberger has clearly been around for some time; hopefully commercial success purely on the basis of his music is in his future. &nbsp;I was definitely convinced. &nbsp;Check him out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Old Jolly Farm\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5cMc9hwqILQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Herald describes his latest release as the &#8220;album is the kind of hyperliterate pop-inflected singer-songwriter outing that went out of style when Warren Zevon died. 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