Great!
author: yiannis1961, athens, greece
Bought this album after hearing the samples. It's a 2-day recording and a proof that if you got the rhythm and the beat and some swampy blues in your head, you don't need any fancy producer or studio. Thank you guys.
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Not Bad for a bunch of White boys!
author: Joe A
Good stuff, if you like Delta Blues I recommend adding this one to the colloction, they do a real cool version of Juniors "Sad Days".
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Powerful mix of hill country blues and sludgy rawk
author: Jeff Konkel/Broke & Hungry Records
This is a fiercely powerful disc mixing all of the best parts of delta and hill country blues with punk and '70s stoner rock. Fat Possum meets Black Sabbath . . . or something. Good stuff.
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sweet and refreshing
author: just a listener
awsome cd--brings back some classic style (which i fear is tragically dying these days) and yet with a whole new spin, "jesus on the ward" is hands down the best song, but you've got to listen to the lyrics.
if you are going to compare this style to anyone, your closest bet is probably a mix of the R&B work of hendrix, with the dark style possessed by jim morrisson and the doors, with [a much less hippy virsion of] steppenwolf (think "the pusher") and maybe with a LITTLE of the Who mixed in there somewhere...accept they are far more raw then all those artists...but that's what's so inovative about the group.
often the music reminds me of kurt cobain's version of "lake of fire" (originally by the meatpuppets) and a few of the R&B beattles songs--especially "One After 909", and even a little of the U2 song "Bullet the Blue Sky". The band is also rather reminicent (at least i think) of Black Sabbath, although with more of a raw blues feel and less electric guitar--they are much closer to the original band with (more or less) the same members as Black Sabbath which was formed by Ozzy much earlier and was far more R&B oriented. This band was called Earth--sadly they never recorded anything...crying shame too....
Anyway, in the end it is of little consiquence who they are reminisent of, BECAUSE as my (probably futile and inaccurate) attempts at identifying such relationships are of no use if you don't get the CD and draw your own conclusions. So do that, and you will lay this troubled (and now ranting) mind to rest.
Thank you and goodnight
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