With
their trashy country swagger The Reverse Cowgirls are the band that
everyone who likes their garage rock and roll delivered with a
healthy portion of grits will love.
There's
no real downside to the band.
Absolutely
nothing that could be picked at that needs worked on.
The lo-fi
– sometimes deliberate, sometimes not – production that seems to
go hand in hand with bands of their ilk is nowhere to be heard.
They
don't need to make a poor recording to imbue it with a sound that
lends itself to conjuring up images of half drunken bottles of cheap
liquor clutched at by hands that have good honest dirt under their
fingernails.
It just
oozes from the speakers that this is the deal.
Dead Will
Rise rolls along as it it rocks.
It's a
sepia tinged dungaree wearing foot stomper of a song that has a solid
groove that is ideal for dancing on table tops to and the blues.
Why
anyone wouldn't want to buy this really doesn't make much sense to me.
It makes less when you consider that it is free.
Meanwhile
Sleepy Eyes Nelson has surpassed himself with his ramshackle blues
The Rats Are Coming In.
It's a
singular example of how it doesn't matter where someone comes from,
but instead it matters where you are at.
Forget
geographical locations as this is the blues.
It could
have been recorded anywhere in the last god knows how many years.
If the
sun is in the sky and you are lying back lazily cloud catching with
this on then it doesn't really matter if you are chilling out on the
muddy banks of the Mississippi or the river Clyde.
I've
always been impressed with Sleepy Eyes Nelson, but with the
additional female vocal on this the song has just been lifted from
out of the very good box and dropped into the exceptionally good one.
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