I knew a bit about singer Bryan Ferry of course, and quite alot about knob twiddler Brian Eno, but had dismissed them as one of those throwaway glam rock pop bands of the early 70s like T-Rex or Slade. When I say "new" I actually mean new to me as obviously Roxy Music are a very old band, but one I've never listened to before. Those Roxy Music Cover GirlsĮven after listening to music for 40 years there are still new "old" bands to discover. I love his fragile voice and gentle guitar strumming and he is top of my gig wish list (he played a small church in Brighton a few years ago but the gig was sold out immediately before I heard). This one seems more country than usual with plenty of pedal steel. I don't know this 2009 album too well in comparison with some of his earlier Palace Brothers music and solo albums. I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I canĪnd I'll be back again, and again and again and again and again.īonnie "Prince" Billy, real name Will Oldham, is the embodiment of laid back, low-fi, americana/country. I'll always be around, and around and around and around and around. They buried me in that great tomb that knows no sound I slipped and fell into the wet concrete below I went aloft and furled the mainsail in a blowĪnd when the yards broke off they said that I got killedĪ place called Boulder on the wild Colorado I sailed a schooner round the Horn to Mexico The bastards hung me in the spring of twenty-five Many a soldier shed his lifeblood on my blade Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade I haven't heard many versions of this famous song but this has to be the best cover out there and jumps straight on to my playlist. They can also do sweet and lovely as heard on the gorgeous cover of Jimmy Webb's The Highwayman. Most of their tracks are quite lengthy with thick guitar melody lines. Their music is slow and heavy grunge with distorted guitars reminding me most of The Foo Fighters or Neil Young.
The Arbouretum album was a favourite of mine for a period of time when it came out in 2011. Wayne Love (front left) inviting a heckler outside for a fight! You never really know what you are going to get live especially with bands like this infamous for outrageous performances. This time around they were a disappointment with a chaotic set hampered by technical problems and bad tempers - The Very Reverend Dr. Wayne Love and his Alabama 3Īfter hearing them at the festival and buying the album I went to see them a second time at our local Concorde2.
This album should have been massive but it's little known and the band have pretty much sunk without trace despite some commercial fame when their Woke Up This Morning featured on The Sorpranos credits. They actually started out under the name of The First Presleyterian Church of Elvis the Divine with an ambition to fuse country music with acid! And it works with great melodies and pulsating electronic gated rhythms. and the preaching, Texas drool and stage names are all in parody. I saw them at a festival once and assumed they were a genuine American gospel band from the deep south. Great songs, great grooves, and oodles of humour. The Alabama 3 album is absolutely brilliant. The Felice Brothers - The Felice Brothers The songs are naked and authentic with super melodies and devastating lyrics of sex, booze and guns.Ģ. Playing it more and sampling the new album the decision to get a ticket for next month's show became an absolute no brainer. I've had The Felice Brothers for a few years but hadn't played it more than half a dozen times up until last week. You couldn't ask for more really could you? Lead singer Ian Felice name checks Tonight's the Night in an interview about their new album, Life in the Dark (straight on the Christmas list), and his singing and lyrics are both very Dylanesque (in reference to the extended narrative songs and punchy nasal delivery of Dylan's early years, more than the inaudible bark of now). Since listening some more and reading a bit more about them I revise that to stand in agreement with the frequent comparisons with The Band ( Music From The Big Pink era), Neil Young ( Tonight's the Night era), and yes, Bob Dylan ( Basement Tapes era). Last week I mentioned The Felice Brothers in the same breath as Wilco, Tom Waits and Bob Dylan.
#EXILE ON COLDHARBOUR LANE RAR PLUS#
Back to some basics this week with some (mostly) unplugged Americana albums from The Felice Brothers and the incomparable Bonnie "Prince" Billy, plus a unique fusion of country and acid (yes, you read right) from Brixton's Alabama 3, and a look at the 70s album covers of a classic glam rock band.
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