All Wrecked Up
A.P. Carter Highway
© 2003 All Wrecked Up (783707783420)
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An eclectic, "post-mountain" mix of old-time Appalachian and bluegrass music.
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ALL WRECKED UP plays and eclectic blend of bluegrass and traditional old-time music. Their tightly-blended vocal harmonies frame dark songs of heartbreak, whiskey, and salvation, plucked from the heart of the American folk tradition. The band members credit an eclectic mix of musical influences for their sound, from the Stanley Brothers to The Beatles, from the Blue Sky Boys to Gillian Welch, from the Carter Family to the alt-country band Freakwater.
The band emerged in the late 1990s as part of the latest revival of old-time and bluegrass music in San Francisco--that fostered such bands as The Crooked Jades, The Stairwell Sisters, and The Waybacks.
Christa Dahlstrom (vocals, guitar) is joined by Chris Ereneta (vocals, clawhammer banjo, mandolin, fiddle), Mike Brown (vocals, bass), and Matt Knoth (vocals, guitar, banjo). With the recent addition of teenage fiddler Annie Staninec, the band's sound has gained a ferocious new edge, one that sounds increasingly like rock n' roll.
Post-mountain American music that's 92%* irony-free.
*Measured by weight, not volume. Contents may settle during shipping.
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- author: Swagman
I heard this CD in preview on CD Baby and just had to own a copy.Bluegrass/Rock and even a little English folksy stuff and a sharp moaning fiddle .Great music for driving along the motorways... Great music at anytime.The vocals on Poor Ellen Smith just have that Psycho edge.Truly fierce stuff and I love it. Swagman
Nice take on a well-established genre.
author: Michael MeadeIf you take roots music pretty-much straight up, the aptly named A.P. Carter Highway will deliver the goods. Tapping a nice mix of traditional tunes and covers of material (by Jean Ritchie, Gillian Welch/David Rawlings, among others) San Francisco's All Wrecked Up throw a hefty dose of musicianship and respect for the genre at their audience. The mostly fine production pulls the acoustic instruments and bluegrass basics into the modern era. A take on Dock Boggs' "Prodigal Son" stumbles somewhat on a guitar attack that seems out of place, but the grizzled vocal of Chris Ereneta saves the day. Christa Dahlstrom furnishes many of the tracks with vocals, and her fine voice is especially well-fitted to "House Carpenter," made wistfully eerie by Chris Knoth's e-bowing. The band has circled in San Francisco's resurgent school of traditional bluegrass for quite some time, unfortunately eclipsed by the more recent freak-folkers such as Devendra Banhardt, Six Organs of Admittance and Joanna Newsom.
Great harmonies, terrific diversity, fun CD
author: HopeFirst heard this group live on a Berkeley, CA radio station. Lots of energy, great diversity in the cuts, think they should be a little wilder on their CDs because they knocked my socks off live - but it still is a terrific DC. Recommend this to anyone liking this blend of country, blues terrific tunes. Great guitar, fiddle and banjo and lots more.