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Nate Farrar: Shell Shocked

by Brad Glanden
October 13, 2006

According to the hard-bitten world view of Nate Farrar's Shell Shocked, the only certainty in life is drinking; to be more precise, the only certainty is heavy drinking, the kind that finds you waking up on a stranger's floor and staggering woozily out the door. “If money isn't made for drinkin'," Farrar sings, “what the hell is it for?" His barstool-philosopher fatalism is so finely honed that listeners might be tempted to join him at the bar for a whiskey ...