Worth Your Valuable Time

"The Shepard's Dog" is a kind of mellow usually found only at 3am on a Monday night after you've had too many beers and your roommate starts playing this old guitar he has and you can hear it coming through the walls of your room like ghost music from a long-razed hippie commune. Listening to it will make you want to take a long walk in a field somewhere on the outskirts of a major city right around sunset; it's an album that begs for golden light, open air, and a homey cabin in which the person you're in love with just happens to be making you some soup.

Above all, it's just exceedingly pleasant. Highly recommend, if you like that sort of thing. If your taste in music runs more towards Anti-Nowhere League, say, or the Wu-Tang Clan, then you might want to give this album a wide berth. But if you're a complex guy with a beard and the remnants of a drinking problem, and if you have trouble expressing your emotions and would prefer that a singer/songwriter do it for you, well then, you could do a lot worse than "The Shepherd's Dog."

It's the best Simon & Garfunkel album not made by Simon & Garfunkel, no joke.

NOTE: The whole thing is available for your free listening pleasure here. It's MySpace, but what can you do...