On Wolves, local five piece Little John blend blues and bushranger folk to create a kind of slow swaying funeral dirge, a tale of desolation and existential crisis in the barren outback that would make old Nick Cave smile. Lead vocalist John Dickson has quite a high pitched voice for this sort of thing, lacking the gravelly gravitas that is common with these ghostly folk songs. I guess that’s a point of difference for Little John, and one that is sorely needed, since the image of wolves encircling a desperate man down by the river isn’t exactly groundbreaking.
Little John : Wolves
