Silver Jews' Country Rock

The Nashville band Silver Jews released their sixth album last week, Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea, on Drag City Records. Since the band's 1994 debut record Starlite Walker, years of drug use and a suicide attempt, songwriter David Berman rediscovered his Jewish roots.

To find out how that may have affected his music, and the country ballads that inspired his writing, we called up our reviewer Justin Gage. He runs the music blog Aquarium Drunkard and hosts a two-hour show every Friday on Sirius Satellite radio’s Left of Center channel.

You can read Justin's two-part interview with David Berman by clicking here. A documentary film to be released in September, "Silver Jew," follows David Berman's weeklong tour of Israel in the midst of their first-ever world tour. You can watch the trailer by clicking here.