Deadstring Brothers

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Total Tracks: 11   Total Length: 45:05

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alt-country at its best!!!

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Im not a steeler is a must have song for any person into this genre!!!

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Robert De Niro

paulmurff

You know those guys in Michael Cimino's The Deerhunter? The ones played by Robert de Niro and Christopher Walken... well, this is what's playing on the radio in that big dented old Eldorado that they drove up to the lodge in the mountains when they got off from their jobs at the mill. It's a damn near flawless album - a PROPER album, that you want to play from start to finish, over and over and over again. The kind of album, in fact, that you might have thought no-one was making any more. I have grown to love this record, and I think you might too. (Could have done without Long Black Veil, though, because I'd rather have another of their own songs in its place... )

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Whether playing a heartbreak ballad like “It Takes Love,” a boozy teardropper like “Jones Street,” or a dance-floor slam like “I’m Not a Stealer,” the Deadstring Brothers infuse muscle and saloon-sentimentality into each track of this debut. The country references are obvious, especially in Pete Ballard’s keening steel, but overall this music feels more blue-collar than redneck. Their rough, somewhat haphazard harmonies, ambling grooves, and vaguely psychedelic leanings recall the Rolling Stones’ country indulgences; Kurt Marschke even distends his vowels (“you” becomes “yewww on “For A Time”) like a Jagger acolyte as the guitars echo Keith Richards’ “Monkey Man” licks. And, of course, there is that “Long Black Veil” cover. But these guys aren’t derivative, and they’re definitely not slumming; there’s a conviction in their delivery that can’t be denied. If ever there were a perfect album for old L.A. stardust cowboys who somehow wound up in a Detroit bar after getting laid-off from their assembly line gig, this would be the one. – Robert L. Doerschuk

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