Nashville Scene (Nashville, TN)
September 27, 2007

Our Critic's Picks: Music
By LEE STABERT

ANDY FRIEDMAN & THE OTHER FAILURES

Singer-songwriter Andy Friedman has a mastery of wordy self-loathing that many white dudes with guitars would kill for. An erstwhile cartoonist for the New Yorker, Friedman also has an irreverent wit that rescues his twangy tunes from the masses—“I can’t understand what it’s like to be booed by millions of adoring fans, but one thing I know is what it’s like to be booed by 16 or 17 undergrads.” The casual country bent feels refreshingly ironic up against the casual, dare-I-say Brooklyn-style nonchalance of his delivery. 10 p.m. at Springwater