Album Notes

First off, check out the new Reid Paley Trio album Approximate Hellhound. Ahem. Critically acclaimed professional wise guy Reid Paley is known as much for his killer live sets as his booze & damnation songwriting and a big resounding voice that’s all his own. This original American rock belter has torn up stages all over the US and Europe, both as A Man & His Guitar, and with his white-hot trio. Revival follows the much-lauded solo debut Lucky's Tune (produced by mythic rock deity and Pixies mastermind Frank Black a.k.a. Black Francis). Reid Paley is also the co-writer with Frank Black of a bunch of songs. The ones that appear on Mr. Black’s albums are "Don't Get Me Wrong" [on Christmass], "I'm Not Dead (I'm In Pittsburgh)", "Golden Shore", "Dog Sleep", "Down To You" [on Fast Man Raider Man], and "Another Velvet Nightmare" [on Honeycomb]. Revival features the inestimable talents of Mr. James Murray working the trap kit and Mr. Robert Lee Oliver on bass. And Paley continues to beat the living hell out of his '55 Gretsch. Produced by studio guru and legendary multi-instrumentalist Eric Drew Feldman (Frank Black, PJ Harvey, Captain Beefheart, Pere Ubu, Snakefinger, and his own Knife & Fork, to name but a few). And that's it boys & girls. These opening lines from Lucky's Tune ought to make it all at least semi-clear: Candy from a baby never tastes like it should Now I'm thinking maybe I just don't know what's good Ain't so rough Give me one chance I'll fuck it up. Ah, forget it. Here's what some other people have to say: ------------------------------------------- "A voice to turn good girls bad...Maybe crazy but damn exciting" --The Village Voice "A proudly weird talent with a nervy raw appeal." --Time Out New York "Straightforward, sarcastic, funny and gifted at putting a song together." --New York Press "Put simply, the Reid Paley Trio knows how to get down. He's got mischief in his eye, Elvis in his joints, and booze everywhere else." --NYRock "Reduce-you-to-tears razor wit...Reid Paley ought to be a household name." --Pittsburgh City Paper "One of the East Coast's best-kept secrets, his wryly misanthropic schtick is all his own. Live, he is the Bill Hicks of the blues. You need to see him." --What's On In London "More messy jazz from a drunken genius." --City Life, Manchester UK "Best Of Manhattan" --New York Press "Everyone has a favorite drinking album. Right now, mine is REVIVAL." --Seattle Weekly REVIVAL "Best 50 Albums of 2000" --Alternative Press "Four Stars" (highest rating) --German Rolling Stone "For fans of churlish honesty and unaffected one-man shows, REVIVAL is a nonstop riot." --San Francisco Weekly "An unholy howl of a voice." --CMJ "A soot-black sense of humor as biting as an underfed Rottweiler." --Cleveland Free Times "Actually, it's more than one date with this vampiric Brooklyn songwriter - it's four. And lucky us. Paley lives on the darker side of Saturday night, his witty ballads backed by a Czechoslovakian upright bass, a trap kit, and a voice that sounds like a bag of gravel in a blender. Just remember - his drawl is worse than his bite..." --City Life, Manchester UK "Classic, damaged to perfection...His music carves it's initials into your heart with a rusty scaffolding bolt." --MurphGuide "Though records like Revival drip with talent, sweat and humor, live is the way to experience Paley." --The Village Voice "As Baudelaire was the spleen of Paris, Reid Paley is the spleen of New York... How else could he write such messianic blues, such prophetic rock 'n' roll?" --442éme Rue, Paris "You can love this album, or you can fear it!" --Westzeit Magazine, Germany "Unnerving but all the more impressive for it...Let the good (and bad) times roll." --ManchesterMusic "Another impossibly excellent piece of work flying low, under the radar." --Ink 19 "I sing along with St. Reid