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Scott H. Biram - Nothin` But Blood (Käytetty CD)
€10,00Quick ViewThe Dirty Old One Man Band Scott H. Biram is back with his ninth studio album titled Nothin’ But Blood. This is his first release since his blues heavy 2011 album, Bad Ingredients. This record is a bit more diverse showcasing his wide range of styles which jumps from blues to country to metal to gospel and back again. Nothin’ But Blood has something that will please any Biram fan.
This record is all over the place when you consider the various styles of Scott H. Biram. You’ve got heavy rock tracks like ”Only Whiskey”, the punk inspired ”Church Point Girls” and even an instrumental which goes into sludge and stoner metal territory titled ”Around The Bend”. In fact, ”Around The Bend” might be the heaviest thing Biram has ever recorded and it is awesome.
On the acoustic part of the record, there are several highlights. ”Never Comin’ Home” brings back memories of the classic ”Still Drunk, Still Crazy, Still Blue”. ”Slow & Easy” is sure to be a hit for Biram. It showcases his ability to paint a picture with words, taking you through several scenes which focus on the easy side of life. ”I’m Troubled” is a track that takes you back to the country folk sound Biram featured on the Preachin’ & Hollerin’ album. It’s a style that has been missed on his more recent records which have focused on heavier blues and hard rockers.
Speaking of blues, there are several tracks which are sure to be crowd-pleasers. ”Alcohol Blues” is on the heavier side of the spectrum, while ”Jack Of Diamonds” brings some solid slide guitar to the table. ”Backdoor Man” is a slow, dirty blues number which could have had a spot on Bad Ingredients.
While this album has many different themes which cover the wild side and the easy side of life, it’s the gospel tunes which give the record it’s heart and soul. There are a couple of originals here with ”Gotta Get To Heaven” and the album’s lead single ”When I Die”. These are great original gospel tunes which further prove Biram’s versatility as a great songwriter. These songs are accompanied by a couple of traditional gospel tunes with ”Amazing Grace” and ”John The Revelator”. While these songs are great, ”Amazing Grace” was a part of the bonus tracks from Bad Ingredients and it would have been nice to get a different cover this time around.
On first listen, Nothin’ But Blood can come across as a record that doesn’t know what it wants to be. It jumps from country folk to sludge metal to blues to gospel. It has themes that range from worshiping the Lord to worshiping the bottle and easy women. It’s hard to capture an artist as diverse as Scott H. Biram in one studio record, however Nothin’ But Blood does just that. It’s an album that showcases the many talents of a great performer in his prime.
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Spaghetti Eddie - Sundowner (Käytetty LP/12)
€40,00Quick ViewAs Supersuckers frontman Eddie Spaghetti ventures further into his solo career, it’s hard not to notice that he’s learned a few lessons in record making from everyone’s favorite marijuana-addled country icon, Willie Nelson. Like the Red Headed Stranger, Eddie has eased into a vocal style on his solo albums that communicates genuine commitment to the material without sounding like he’s pushing himself too hard, and also like Willie, Eddie knows how to pick material that suits his personality when he doesn’t have a full batch of originals on hand. Sundowner, Spaghetti’s third solo LP, feels just a bit like one of the umpteen albums Willie Nelson made in the 1980s; it’s the work of a guy who happens to love singing and making records, and if the folks involved don’t sound like they’ve been sweating blood over the material, they also clearly had a fine time and their love of the songs and the process of making music is inescapable. Spaghetti doesn’t quite take his covers away from the folks who did the songs originally, but he has a real knack for making the tunes bend to the curvature of his personality, whether he’s partying in high style on ”Party Dolls and Wine,” offering some sobering relationship advice on ”If You Fall in Love,” imagining a grand future for himself on ”Cowboy,” or making like the King of the Highway on ”Girl on the Billboard.” Spaghetti’s voice sometimes sounds a little roadworn around the edges, but that adds more to these songs than it takes away, and he cuts an easygoing but sure-footed groove with his studio helpmates Metal Marty Chandler on guitar and Scott Churilla on drums. And while Spaghetti’s own ”Never Thought I Would” is a fine exercise in casual swagger, he really strikes gold on a remake on ”Marie,” which he originally recorded on 1995’s The Sacrilicious Sound of the Supersuckers; while its solemn tone seemed out of place on that album, the more low-key presentation here suits this cautionary tale very well. Willie Nelson has a way of sounding like he casually wandered into the studio and walked out with a good record a few days later, and Sundowner suggests Eddie Spaghetti is picking up on the same trick; it has both fun and casual authority in equal measures, and it would probably sound just as good as The Promiseland or A Horse Called Music over the course of a road trip.”
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Paterson Joel - Let It Be Guitar! Joel Paterson Plays The Beatles (CD)
€20,00Quick ViewAs a follow up to his well-revered holiday album Hi-Fi Christmas Guitar, Joel Paterson will release a collection of vintage instrumental, guitar-centric covers of songs from the Beatles’ catalog, entitled Let It Be Guitar! Joel Paterson Plays The Beatles.
The album – out on September 20th – features the guitarist’s signature blend of vintage jazz, exotica, blues, rockabilly, western swing and country, and uses classic Beatles songs as a sonic template for the mid-century musical journey
Let It Be Guitar! Showcases fresh new arrangements of these familiar tunes, employing a wide variety of musical styles and guitar sounds, paying tribute to Paterson’s biggest influences including Les Paul, Chet Atkins, Jorgen Ingmann, James Burton, Buddy Emmons, Ernest Ranglin and many more. Of the inspiration for the album, Paterson says, ”This is the guitar record I’ve always wanted to make. I love the Beatles and their artistry and attention to detail in the recording studio-and I love all-things-guitar. So, I had a great time diving into these amazing songs, coming up with my own arrangements, and at the same time paying tribute to some of my favorite guitarists and vintage recording techniques of yesteryear.”
The album’s liner notes were written by singer/songwriter and fellow vintage appreciator J.D. McPherson and give further explanation of the project, ”Each of Joel’s interpretations of these songs are concise, genre-bending, stylish tone poems, mixing both Joel’s and the Beatles’ own century-spanning inspirations into one zesty musical stew. Contained within certain tracks, you may even find nods to OTHER instrumentalists who have delved into the Beatles’ body of work… It’s almost the meta-sonic equivalent of a Liverpudlian Rube Goldberg drawing.” Recorded in Chicago at Reliable Recorders and at Paterson’s home studio, Let It Be Guitar! #features Joel on guitar, pedal steel, and lap steel; Beau Sample (Devil in a Woodpile, The Modern Sounds, The Fat Babies) on bass; Alex Hall (The Flat Five, The Western Elstons, The Fat Babies) on drums; and Chris Foreman on Hammond B3 organ. One of the busiest musicians on the roots music scene today, Paterson can be heard playing with The Modern Sounds, The Joel Paterson Organ Trio featuring Chris Foreman, Devil in a Woodpile, The Western Elstons, and many other Chicago-based projects.
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Fulks Robbie - Country Love Songs (180 Gram Vinyl, Digital Download Card) (LP)
€22,00Quick ViewRobbie Fulks’ debut album – now on vinyl for the first time – was the surprise hit of ’96, and at the time served notice that a) Country Music did NOT have to suck b) that he was a top-notch songwriter and performer and c) things in the underground country scene were never going to be the same. Truly the bar had been raised. Let’s let Robbie describe it: ”13 original country songs with an early 50’s production aesthetic (hot vocals, robust bass, live instrumental tracks) and arrangement, reviving certain types of songs long abandoned by mainstream country music. Likewise in retro spirit, these songs will frequently violate current country songwriting trends which hold as taboo themes of negativism, forceful expression, and points of view uncongenial to the prevailing ideology of fatuous feelgoodism; they will instead reflect a modern sensibility in their emotional graphicness, vigorous iconoclasm, and sense of humor. In composition and presentation the music will honestly reflect the heart and personality of it’s author/singer, and in it’s fundamental sincerity will stand resolutely against the poisonous tides of camp.” Co-produced by Steve Albini, and features appearances by the Skeletons, and Tom Brumley (of the Buckaroos!), and drop-dead, now classic cool honky tonk gems like ”Every Kinda Music But Country,” ”The Buck Starts Here,” and the sing-a-long fave ”She Took A Lot Of Pills (And Died).” Foodies will love ”The Scrapple Song,” duet fetishists will adore ”We’ll Burn Together” and sinners will love ”Let’s Live Together.”
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Fulks Robbie & Linda Gail Lewis - Wild! Wild! Wild! (LP)
€23,00Quick View2018 release. The collaboration between Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Robbie Fulks and rock ’n’ roll royalty Linda Gail Lewis, Wild! Wild! Wild, gleefully lives up to it’s title.
Subversive as it is reverential, the album confidently jumps the genre tracks of nitty-gritty rock ’n’ roll, Americana, country & western, rockabilly, and all of their offshoots.
Recorded at Chicago’s Reliable Recorders by Alex Hall (JD McPherson, Pokey LaFarge, The Cactus Blossoms) and produced by Robbie Fulks, the album features a band of American roots music legends, stalwarts, and peers.
Linda Gail Lewis says, ”I love singing with Robbie. It reminds of singing with my brother, Jerry Lee. The duets we did were so much fun. And the songs Robbie wrote are out of this world. My husband was a promotion man for Stax and Chess, and he felt like he was back at Stax when he heard ’Foolmaker.’ Robbie is a soul singer. That was a surprise.”
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Fulks Robbie & Linda Gail Lewis - Wild! Wild! Wild! (CD)
€18,00Quick View2018 release. The collaboration between Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Robbie Fulks and rock ’n’ roll royalty Linda Gail Lewis, Wild! Wild! Wild, gleefully lives up to it’s title.
Subversive as it is reverential, the album confidently jumps the genre tracks of nitty-gritty rock ’n’ roll, Americana, country & western, rockabilly, and all of their offshoots.
Recorded at Chicago’s Reliable Recorders by Alex Hall (JD McPherson, Pokey LaFarge, The Cactus Blossoms) and produced by Robbie Fulks, the album features a band of American roots music legends, stalwarts, and peers.
Linda Gail Lewis says, ”I love singing with Robbie. It reminds of singing with my brother, Jerry Lee. The duets we did were so much fun. And the songs Robbie wrote are out of this world. My husband was a promotion man for Stax and Chess, and he felt like he was back at Stax when he heard ’Foolmaker.’ Robbie is a soul singer. That was a surprise.”
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Luke Winslow-King - Blue Mesa (CD)
€18,00Quick ViewLuke Winslow-King’s’ 2018 album is an example of craftsmanship at the highest level, radiating a warmth and timeless elegance. Adept at mixing country, blues, R&B, rock ’n’ roll, and folk influences intuitively and masterfully, Luke shapes a mood from many sources and shepherds it to a unifying place of acceptance and hope. Blue Mesa is both stately and approachable, manifestly proficient but deeply personal.
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Luke Winslow-King - Blue Mesa (LP)
€20,00Quick ViewLuke Winslow-King’s’ 2018 album is an example of craftsmanship at the highest level, radiating a warmth and timeless elegance. Adept at mixing country, blues, R&B, rock ’n’ roll, and folk influences intuitively and masterfully, Luke shapes a mood from many sources and shepherds it to a unifying place of acceptance and hope. Blue Mesa is both stately and approachable, manifestly proficient but deeply personal.
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Barrence Whitfield And The Savages - Soul Flowers Of Titan (CD)
€7,50Quick ViewLimited 180gm vinyl LP pressing including digital download. Titan is the largest moon orbiting Saturn, a planet which astrologically symbolizes pain, struggle and hard knocks on the human path to wholeness, and liberation among many other things. Soul Flowers of Titan is a collection of songs representing cosmology, struggles and influences. People shooting guns, separating, coming home (someday), in love, running around, leaving this earth, going crazy, drinking coffee, and thinking about Sun Ra. Titan’s a forbidding, poisonous place with mountains, rivers and oceans of methane and ammonia, cloaked in a dense shroud of gases. The kinds of flowers that would grow there would be the hardy beasts that survived to make this strange bouquet.
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Barrence Whitfield And The Savages - Soul Flowers Of Titan (180 gram, Limited) (LP)
€20,00Quick ViewLimited 180gm vinyl LP pressing including digital download. Titan is the largest moon orbiting Saturn, a planet which astrologically symbolizes pain, struggle and hard knocks on the human path to wholeness, and liberation among many other things. Soul Flowers of Titan is a collection of songs representing cosmology, struggles and influences. People shooting guns, separating, coming home (someday), in love, running around, leaving this earth, going crazy, drinking coffee, and thinking about Sun Ra. Titan’s a forbidding, poisonous place with mountains, rivers and oceans of methane and ammonia, cloaked in a dense shroud of gases. The kinds of flowers that would grow there would be the hardy beasts that survived to make this strange bouquet.
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Ruby Boots - Don`t Talk About It (CD)
€15,00Quick View”A genre-busting delight…comes across as a compelling mix of Dixie Chicks and Deborah Harry. [She is] sultry and sassy, fierce and feisty…The album is swaggeringly assured, it oozes confidence and class.” — Stack (Australia)
Aussie born and Nashville living, the album is informed as much by the wide-open landscapes of her homeland as the intimate writing circles of Nashville, ’Don’t Talk About It’ may range far and wide but always maintains a firm sense of place. Echoes of first wave UK power pop and jangly punk intersect with the every(wo)man indie and pop-inflected muscle of Best Coast.
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Ruby Boots - Don`t Talk About It (LP)
€20,00Quick ViewLimited 180gm vinyl LP pressing including digital download.
”A genre-busting delight…comes across as a compelling mix of Dixie Chicks and Deborah Harry. [She is] sultry and sassy, fierce and feisty…The album is swaggeringly assured, it oozes confidence and class.” — Stack (Australia)
Aussie born and Nashville living, the album is informed as much by the wide-open landscapes of her homeland as the intimate writing circles of Nashville, ’Don’t Talk About It’ may range far and wide but always maintains a firm sense of place. Echoes of first wave UK power pop and jangly punk intersect with the every(wo)man indie and pop-inflected muscle of Best Coast.
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Lydia Loveless - Boy Crazy And Single(s) (CD)
€15,00Quick ViewA new collection of Lydia Loveless’s summery 5-song EP Boy Crazy plus six non-album singles and B-sides including original songs in addition to inventive and bare-bones covers of Prince, Elvis Costello and Kesha.
The recordings span from 2012 to 2015; many of which are on CD and LP for the first time. Boy Crazy is Lydia Loveless’s ””rock and roll tribute to baseball pants and youth.”” Featuring sun-washed rebel-powered pop songs presenting a conversation about judgment and loss of innocence as one transitions from good old American naivete to you-should-knowbetter ””wisdom.”” These songs see Lydia and her band roping in their signature twangy pedalsteel-laden rock beat-em-ups and tying them tightly with the crisp Southern air of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ Damn the Torpedoes and the snarling-but-sweet delivery of Juliana Hatfield’s heyday. It’s a summer set that arrives a little tardy this year just in time to prolong those long buzz-chasing July days when you hang out where you know you aren’t supposed to. This time you just don’t care about getting caught.
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Sarah Shook & The Disarmers - Sidelong (LP)
€23,00Quick View2017 release. North Carolina’s Sarah Shook sings with a conviction and hard honesty sorely lacking in much of today’s Americana landscape. Always passionate, and at times profane, Sarah stalks/walks the line between vulnerable and menacing. You can hear in her voice what’s she’s seen; world weary, hard lessons learned-or not-but always defiant. She level-steady means what she says. The Disarmers, with their snarling boom-chicka-boom guitars and an Old 97’s swing in the rhythm section, keep it in the pocket. Tight and tough. Sidelong rides in the middle seat, before seat belts, of a ’77 Buick Riviera blasting down a dirt road. Rowdy punk rock sneer to the right, a bottle in a bag; organic country three chords and the truth honesty on the left-one eye in the rear view mirror and one eye on the rough road ahead. It’s a hell of a ride. Writing with a sense of urgency-so refreshing these days it’s almost startling, Sarah’s lyrics are in turn smart, funny, mean and above all honest. Sly turns of phrase so spot on they feel as old and true as the hymnal. Anger that’s confrontational as it is concise. Humor that’s as wry and resigned as a fallen sage’s.
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Sarah Shook & The Disarmers - Sidelong (CD)
€15,00Quick View2017 release. North Carolina’s Sarah Shook sings with a conviction and hard honesty sorely lacking in much of today’s Americana landscape. Always passionate, and at times profane, Sarah stalks/walks the line between vulnerable and menacing. You can hear in her voice what’s she’s seen; world weary, hard lessons learned-or not-but always defiant. She level-steady means what she says. The Disarmers, with their snarling boom-chicka-boom guitars and an Old 97’s swing in the rhythm section, keep it in the pocket. Tight and tough. Sidelong rides in the middle seat, before seat belts, of a ’77 Buick Riviera blasting down a dirt road. Rowdy punk rock sneer to the right, a bottle in a bag; organic country three chords and the truth honesty on the left-one eye in the rear view mirror and one eye on the rough road ahead. It’s a hell of a ride. Writing with a sense of urgency-so refreshing these days it’s almost startling, Sarah’s lyrics are in turn smart, funny, mean and above all honest. Sly turns of phrase so spot on they feel as old and true as the hymnal. Anger that’s confrontational as it is concise. Humor that’s as wry and resigned as a fallen sage’s.
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Scott H. Biram - Bad Testament (CD)
€18,00Quick ViewWith the heart of a genuine Texas Bluesman, the head(banging) of a Zappa and Lemmy disciple and boots resting in the dust outside of town at sunrise, Scott H. Biram journeys through the harrowing human condition like no one else. A walk on the Birams-side straddles the chasm between sin and redemption, and ’The Bad Testament’ lands somewhere west of the Old Testament and south of an AA handbook. It’s a record of hard-grinding lost love and deep, dark Americana with songwriting on the razor’s edge of aggression and deftness, thoroughly contemporary but steeped in the back waters, back porches, and back alleys of our collective musical heritage.
He is a one-man band, but never falls in a rut, alays shifting, from the wandering Country-Soul of Jimmie Rodgers and the laid-back cool of Merle Haggard to the distorted, unvarnished, unhinged aggro-roots,
Biram proves yet again he’s not jus A one-man band, he is THE one-man band. The master of the realm. Why? Because even though he’s one man, he ain’t just one thing.
