a couple of things

My column in the Times-Standard: Best of 2006.
A blurb in the Portland Mercury: see below.

JOHNNY BERTRAM

(Mississippi Pizza, 3552 N Mississippi) You know how whenever you hear a Jack Johnson song, you kind of start moving your head and generally "grooving," even though you feel like a total tool while doing so? I suggest Johnny Bertram as a guilt-free alternative. Dude knows how to craft a pop song, with honey-sweet vox and nimble acoustic guitar action, but instead of singing about, say, Curious George, he sings about drugs, poor people, and revolution. Bertram's a Portlander who relocated to Jackson, Mississippi, and you can hear the South creeping in to his indierock aesthetic—a little sweatier, a little sexier. Peep his Sam Beam-style beard if you get a chance. JOEL HARTSE

If you're following along with your IPA handbook, the album is called in "Live My Bedroom," as in "I recorded this album in person, like a concert, in my bedroom," not "Live in My Bedroom," as in "I command or request that you come make your home with me in my bedroom." If that makes any sense.