This came out in 2005 — or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
A little bit of Tom Waits. A little bit of Kurt Weill. A little bit of Bertolt Brecht. A little bit of gypsy jazz. A little bit of Romanian folk music. And a whole lotta accordion and violin.
Put ’em all together, rub them with garlic and marinate ’em in potato vodka and cheap red wine and you’ve got Vancouver singer-songwriter Geoff Berner’s Whiskey Rabbi, undoubtedly the finest display of Eastern European drinking songs I (and I suspect you) have heard since Boris Yeltsen rocked the house. Za vashe zdorovie!
