(Almost) All I can say is Wow! The quote from Scott Lesley on the hype sticker (below) nails it much harder than I could but I'll give it a shot:
Whispers of Bowie, Iggy, Beefheart, Love, JohnnyDowd, maybe Jim White and so much more but filtered thru the night air of Alabama, but really it's all straight-up Red Mouth and his band doing their thing better than always.
At 5 songs (shhh! Actually 6!) It's just the right length because I'm left wanting so much more. And I can't wait. Till then I'll be satisfied flipping this record over and over and over...
Ever since Nugent wrapped his pelted nethers 'round an uglyold broad named politicsand startedbaiting trot lines for Vegetariansin lieuofactuallyfknrawking, iggyPop was found rehashing 1969 (and thank God somebody is) while living in Miami, Bobby "Come to Papa" Seger turned babysitter, and even KidRock went kranky divorcee kountry, the Great State of Michigan has been sorely needin' The Rock and Roll. Oh sure sqeaky voiced manchild Jack White and his gal pal Meg and some of their lil' D-troit pals hunker down now and again and rock the basement like they really mean it but hell...is it really frkn heavy enuff? Hellfire Jack married a L.A. model as tall as an amazon on the Amazon river and Meg wigged out and moved to L.A. so how can one expect them to actually rawk? But I digress. Right now the best damn band (in my far less than humble opinion)to rep the glorious moss-backed north woods of Michigan is The BirdDogs. Hailing from somewheres btween Pontiac and Detroit this is burly hairyassed music played by burly hairyassed dudes who'd go coon huntin' with T-Model Ford and Rankin'JeffreyLeePierce down in the dark muddy swamps of Hamtramck for MitchRyder and SkySaxon one night with a Paczki in one hand and Gibson SG in the other then shoot the sht about poetry with the ghost of Jim Morrison's old lady the next. The Birddogs is bringin' the EViL back. And I'm not talkin' about that lying,decieving and backbiting evil. I'm talkin' about the burly dirty down in the bunker sexbeat. EVOL. Like some kind of un-tie-dyed and flannel flag flyin' backwoods bearded Hill Country Led Zep chasin' Leslie West back up his Mountain they are a tree climbin' mud encrusted boot and axe handle to be reckoned with.
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"...and what makes it so good is that everybody is original, everybody has their own taste of the blues. Their own feeling of the blues. Their own form of the blues. Told in that way, that's what makes it historical - it will never die."
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"...authenticity without evolution isn't authenticity, but mimicry. And not terribly authentic or interesting at all." -Ted Drozdowski
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And, of course, that is what all of this is -- all of this: the one song, ever changing, ever reincarnated, that speaks somehow from and to and for that which is ineffable within us and without us, that is both prayer and deliverance, folly and wisdom, that inspires us to dance or smile or simply to go on, senselessly, incomprehensibly, beatifically, in the face of mortality and the truth that our lives are more ill-writ, ill-rhymed and fleeting than any song, except perhaps those songs -- that song, endlesly reincarnated -- born of that truth, be it the moon and June of that truth, or the wordless blue moan, or the rotgut or the elegant poetry of it. That nameless black-hulled ship of Ulysses, that long black train, that Terraplane, that mystery train, that Rocket '88', that Buick 6 -- same journey, same miracle, same end and endlessness." -- Nick Tosches, Where Dead Voices Gather
"My songs, they have just the one chord, there's none of that fancy stuff you hear now, with lots of chords in one song. If I find another chord I leave it for another song." -Junior Kimbrough
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