A Thousand Ships

10 Songs | MR031 | Release Date 2007 On the last Boondogs album, the Indy Grotto songs were the killers - achy, dreamy, gauzy pieces of dreampop. On the Little Rock band's new A Thousand Ships, it's Grotto's husband, Jason Weinheimer, who seems to have a more direct line to the listener's central nervous system. We say this with a big caveat. Grotto and Weinheimer share songwriting credit on seven of the 10 songs on the CD, but it is generally understood that the songs Weinheimer sings are his own compositions and vice versa for his wife. But we imagine that the Boondogs partnership means just that - two people bringing music to life. "Things You'll Regret" is the opening track for A Thousand Ships, and you'll be forgiven if you don't move on to the others right away. With its outsize slide guitar hook and its infectious, acousticguitar based beat, it almost immediately jumps to the top of our long list of favorite Boondogs songs ever. The lyric "Like Helen of Troy you leave me no choi