So if psychedelic folk is the coming trend in music, then Wooden Wand should be the next Kill Rock Stars fluffer in line to goad the big, fat hard-ons of the industry’s elite tastemakers. Wooden Wand, ...

Then, Hard Knox or, "Are You Sure Hank Jr. Done it This Way?", a disc of demos and home recordings, will come out on Ecstatic Peace, May 26th, 2009. "[The session's] exclusive covers of tunes by ...

It’s been three years between Wooden Wand records, but James Jackson Toth has used the time. He made a bewitching, drone-filled LP, Under Stars and Smoke, with William Fowler Collins; with his wife, ...

Troubleman Unlimited Wooden Wand’s track doesn’t chronicle the flood per se as much as it does the messy, boggy aftermath. A moldy, nightmare glut of tuneless gypsy guitar plucks, one-drum pum-pums, ...

I've always enjoyed James Jackson Toth's stripped-down, dusky music most: It gives us the space to sink our teeth into his songwriting; his voice sounds best when it's foreboding, bummed, soul-sick, ...

"What has Wooden Wand been up to lately?" It was a simple question that turned into an epic email thread with a friend a year ago; the kind where you find yourself a sudden apologist for a sprawling, ...

James Jackson Toth's new album as Wooden Wand, Wooden Wand & the World War IV, is arguably his most consistent yet. The best songs on the record combine easy power with an undercurrent of tension. So ...

James Jackson Toth’s solo work and his recordings as Wooden Wand once occupied different times and spaces. But with Death Seat, Wooden Wand’s Young God debut, Toth has shed the psychedelics of that ...

Wooden Wand, a.k.a. James Jackson Toth, is a hard dude to pin down. Depending on the day of the week, a listener might discover outlaw alt-folk (2010’s Death Seat), rowdy rock’n’roll (2011’s Briarwood ...

At 32, the talented and prolific James Jackson Toth is already the veteran of a thousand music-business indignities, running the cursed gamut through bad record deals, nightmare tours, personal tumult ...

Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice belong to that loose circle of freak-folk collectives that includes No-Neck Blues Band and Sunburned Hand of the Man bands who favour cryptic names and document ...