Let the year that is 2008 begin to rock. Right now. Alive Records has released Left Lane Cruiser's label debut, Bring Yo' Ass To The Table , and it is everything fans of their self-released album, Gettin' Down On It , could have expected and so much more. I got an iPhone for Christmas and in preparation for the beginning of the year, I planned to load the new LLC, Drive-By Truckers and N. Mississippi Allstars albums on it for listening in my New Years travels. I never made it [...]
Here are some highlights of this week's new releases. Left Lane Cruiser - Bring Yo Ass To The Table | buy it at amazon Download "Wash It" (mp3) This two-piece band from Fort Wayne, IN, is the style Two Gallants, The Black Keys, or White Stripes. With the release of Bring Yo Ass To The Table , slide guitar and heavy-hitting drums collide into raucous blues soaked music. [...]
In Left Lane Cruiser , Alive Records finds another swampy blues act with a heavy dose of pedal steel and grizzly, low-fi vocals. LLC won't seduce you with poetic lyrics, but they'll start you off with a whiskey on the rocks to warm you up on the intro track, "Wash It," and then run you over with brute force throughout the rest of the album. Lead singer/Slide guitarist, Joe Evans, sounds like he is foaming at mouth as he isn't going down without a fight. Brenn Beck beats the drums like they owe him money and blows [...]
In the course of writing this web site, I sometimes find myself becoming a music consumer. That's good, write about it. That sucks, throw it away. Oh! I really like that! Add it to the Essential Listening List and toss it on the iPod. Album in. 5 listens. Write about it. Rip it. Post mp3s. Repeat with new cd. You start going through the motions. These are the times when I start to get "blog-fatigue". Then an album like Gettin' Down On It arrives in the mailbox, and I remember why I started this site. Fort [...]
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