Wooden Wand Explained

Wooden Wand is the stage name of singer-songwriter James Jackson Toth,[1] [2] who has recorded under his given name as well as the name WAND. The style of music recorded by Toth and his many incarnations has drawn on a variety of both conventional and experimental folk and rock influences, including psychedelic folk, freak folk and indie. Though he was a significant player in the New Weird America trend of the early to mid-2000s along with Devendra Banhart, Akron/Family, Joanna Newsom, and collaborators The Vanishing Voice, Toth has been difficult to pigeonhole in one genre; recent releases have been identified as acid folk, free jazz, outlaw country, and country-tinged rock. Toth has appeared on labels including Kill Rock Stars, Ecstatic Peace!, Rykodisc, and Young God.

Wooden Wand's collaborations have been nearly as wandering and nomadic as Toth himself, a New York native who attended Purchase College before relocating to Knoxville, Tennessee, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and most recently Lexington, Kentucky. He has recorded with the Vanishing Voice (including ex-wife Jessica Bowen and other bandmates Jarvis Taniere and G. Lucas Crane, who went on to form (Jex Thoth) and (Woods), respectively, and Heidi Diehl), the Sky High Band, the Omen Bones Band, and the Briarwood Virgins (a Birmingham, Alabama supergroup featuring members of the Through the Sparks, Plate Six, Delicate Cutters, and Verbena). In January 2013, Fire Records in the UK released Wooden Wand's latest record Blood Oaths of the New Blues, which was the second album recorded with the Briarwood Virgins band in Birmingham in February 2012.

Swans frontman and head of Young God Records Michael Gira stated, James Jackson Toth's “got that picaresque quality that Dylan had in his heyday, wherein the shambolic narrator undergoes various travails and epiphanies — harrowing, bleak and darkly comical — in the course of a narrative, then leaves you mystified, both smiling and sad.”

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  1. Web site: Wooden Wand - Biography. Stafford. Charity. AllMusic. 3 November 2014.
  2. Web site: Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice . AllMusic.
  3. Web site: Buck Dharma - Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice . AllMusic . en.
  4. Web site: Music Review: Wooden Wand - L'un marquer contre la moissonneuse (and The Vanishing Voice) . Tiny Mix Tapes . en.
  5. Web site: Xiao - Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice . AllMusic . en.
  6. Web site: Gipsy Freedom - Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice . AllMusic . en.
  7. Web site: The Flood - Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice . AllMusic . en.
  8. Web site: Wooden Wand: James & the Quiet . Pitchfork.
  9. Web site: James and the Quiet - Wooden Wand . AllMusic . en.
  10. Web site: Currin . Grayson Haver . Wooden Wand: Death Seat . Pitchfork.
  11. Web site: Death Seat - Wooden Wand . AllMusic . en.
  12. Web site: Briarwood - Wooden Wand . AllMusic . en.
  13. Web site: Deusner . Stephen M. . Wooden Wand: Farmer's Corner . Pitchfork.
  14. Web site: Farmer's Corner - Wooden Wand . AllMusic . en.
  15. Web site: Clipper Ship - Wooden Wand . AllMusic . en.
  16. Web site: Stosuy . Brandon . Wooden Wand: Harem of the Sundrum and the Witness Figg . Pitchfork.
  17. Web site: Harem of the Sundrum & the Witness Figg - Wooden Wand . AllMusic . en.
  18. Web site: Second Attention - Wooden Wand, Wooden Wand / Wooden Wand & the Sky High Band . AllMusic . en.
  19. Web site: Music Review: Wooden Wand & The World War IV - Wooden Wand & The World War IV . Tiny Mix Tapes . en.
  20. Web site: Horus of the Horizon - Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice . AllMusic . en.

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