Weinkauf Wakes Up With Lullabies

Red Pants Band member Tina Kenny Jones provides vocals on the wistful “When We Fall Asleep (Anything Can Be)” and family members Michelle and Kai guest on  “Toy Town” and the Twin Peaks-esque “Counting Sheep,” which sounds like an Angelo Badalamenti experiment. Sadness over a friend moving away is the main concern of the somber tone of “Toy Town,” and there isn’t much of a resolution. But kids are resilient and come to realize that there are times when we’re just sad and that’s the way things have to be.

 

Lullabies constitutes a curio in the recording discography of Weinkauf (and his Red Pants Band compatriots). But it’s an unexpected, dreamy pit stop in what must feel like a frustrating nightmare for an active musician about to embark on a full year’s worth of live performances. Small wonder that Weinkauf wants to wake up in a brand new day – and take your kids along with him.