Roll Magazine Reviews "Raking Up the Shade"
Just two tracks in, Scale Squasher is the ablum's first semi-novelty tune, about a gigantic plant from the genus Curcurbita, while "Halloween Night" closes with an Abbot and Costello-esque conversation between Bindlestick Bill and Sockratease. And even some of the other tunes havea certain quaint charm, though not because of humorrous lyrics, but because the modern world is often hyper-produced and cold and detached, and none of those traits are found here.
Bindlestick Bill calls himself a traveling troubadour on his website, and it's not hard to imagine the 17 songs on Raking Up the Shade written and performed along a dusty trail winding through the Catskills, with banjo and acoutic guitars echoing across the valley.