David & David's Boomtown is a hard look at urban life in the 1980s, a time when many were fulfilling the American Dream of financial success & upward mobility. It is not an easy album to listen to, as the characters depicted in the songs are often dealing with major problems such as drugs & domestic violence. But it is an artful record, full of poetry & convincing stories of the hard times that many silently endured. At times the record is full of pop hooks, & at other stages a more blea