Skeleton Blues

On his tenth album, he's joined by his working Omaha band, The Fallen Men. Sounding like Doug Yule-era Velvet Underground, Dylan with The Band (or is it Neil Young and Crazy Horse?), and "Sister Lovers"-damaged Big Star, this is unlike any other Joyner record. "Skeleton Blues" explores themes of loyalty, alienation, death, time, war, and divorce. His skeletons are people in states of transition, falling and climbing, failing sometimes but always swimming the backstroke from the rolling graveyards.