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Eric Gebhardt - Sir Redmouth'Sir Red Mouth' continues Eric's obsession with discovering just how far you can push American roots music, particularly delta blues, mixing it with art-punk-rockery by the likes the Velvets, Stooges and Weirdos. Americana-UK: I don't think that Gebhardt will object if I describe his music as fucked-up blues. He uses the blues as a starting point that he soon jumps from. 'See What My Life Has Shown' opens the set, an acapella gospel blues that works really well as a traditional blast of spirituality and as a base for some experimentation with the voices not always going where you'd expect them to. Small-town frustration comes across loud and clear; this is the sound of a man trapped geographically, probably demographically and expressing frustration by wilfully breaking musical rules - think of the blues as a wall that he sprays sonic graffiti on. He mixes up whatever musical paint that comes to hand and often this just results in a mess and at others something genuinely interesting appears. 'Hearts on Loan' appears with a plangent guitar and a croon, no distortion, no deconstruction, just the song and in this context the straightforward is a shock. Next up is the banjo led Stonesy boogie of 'Dirty Needles' a kind of exile on a side street. Also related to Jagger/Richards is 'Just like You' which is Stones + punkish attitude. 'Hunger Tree' is a dizzy waltz, the room spinning way too fast, everything so gentle but so out of control it's like trying to work out why things happen whilst you're out of your head - reasoning is circular, things spin in their own orbits and ultimately we are all stranded in our own small town. |
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