The News-Journal
Daytona, Fla
4/12/02


Saum stays true to great poet
By Rick deYampert
ENTERTAINMENT WRITER

Douglas Lee Saum
The Wind, the Reeds, and the Seven Woods
(Barbarous Generation Music)
**** (of five)

Talk about dysfunctional relationships . . .on his new CD The Wind, the Reeds, and the Seven Woods, Douglas Lee Saum has this to sing about a lover: "Were you but lying cold and dead, and lights were paling out of the West, you would come hither and bend your head, and I would lay my head on your breast. And you would murmur tender words, forgiving me, because you were dead . . . O would, beloved, that you lay under the dock-leaves in the ground, while lights were paling one by one."
Is Saum a Marilyn Manson protégé? A new millennium, vampiric goth rocker?
No. Actually, Saum didn't write any of the lyrics for the 45 songs on his two-CD set. Instead, when the folkie guitarist and multi-instrumentalist went in search for a lyricist, he decided to hook up with a rather capable wordsmith named W