Jeff Evans Porkestra

• Willow Pillow [self-released, 2024] A−
• When Pigs Dance [self-released, 2025] A−

Consumer Guide Reviews:

Willow Pillow [self-released, 2024]
Evans is said to be a regular on Atlanta's alt-country scene, about which I know naught else although Atlanta being Atlanta I assume it has some heft to it. But I was instantly attracted to these six eccentric medium-tempo g-b-d love songs, which leads with one where he casts himself as a spider who shot the sheriff in a murder-suicide but the prints don't match and then compares his girl to the Sea of Japan. In the finale he drives her to the airport so she can fly to the aforementioned island nation and then sings about hoping she comes back. He's so goofy and likable you'll hope along with him. A−

When Pigs Dance [self-released, 2025]
"Sixty-watt bulb in a 40-watt socket" documents an EP's worth of a world where "old people ain't as old as they used to be," lost dogs leave a trail of puppies where they bury their bone, the sun sinks whenever Evans leaves the girl who holds out on the loving until she gets her Sunday beer, and if it's green lights all the way to her house it's also green lights all the way home. A−