These two albums are real-deal-tear-it-up blues done the old fashioned way, with just a touch of 90's tongue-in-cheek wise-guy attitude thrown in (which makes them all the more authentic). Super stripped down two pieces, guitar and voice with drums, recorded live and loud. T-Model, at seventy five, especially rips out of the speakers with the 'Boogie Chitlen' riff kickin'. Twenty Miles is Judah Bauer with brother Donovan giving Lightnin' Hopkins a whiskey jug of industrial mayhem. Needle in the red, no multi-tracking, distorted guitar farm recordings-the soul of the south. Like vintage John Lee Hooker, the bite equals the bark. (Fat Possum, PO Box 1923, Oxford, MS 38655)
Music Reviews | No. 8
Volume One
by Kevin Coral
Stop me if you've heard this one before. A couple of L.A. rich kids with too much time on their hands buy some recording equipment, rent a space and start recording their own album, which they...