Consumer Guide Album

Low Cut Connie: Art Dealers [Contender, 2023]
A tireless entertainer with matchless chops and a sense of humor so acerbic it isn't funny, Adam Weiner is a high-IQ frontman perfectly capable of writing with more subtlety than he sings with. So even if you give this very post-pandemic album the close attention it deserves, you still may not notice some of the nuances of its gibes, plaints, protests, outcries, and observations. Having identified as a "song and dance man" up front, by the time Weiner showcases a title track he only gets around to as the album approaches a tuckered-out finale he's still trying to come to terms with the middlemen he calls the art dealers--the "dead on their feet" bizzers who "don't live here no more." "Who's gonna listen to my song after everyone is gone?" he wonders. "I feel like a garbage man who's lost his wedding ring," he confesses. Then it's on to the next gig. A-