Monday, January 12, 2015

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Our final round of the Big Rock Candy Mountain Best of 2014!!!!  We got the greatest 12 rekkids (comprising the, erm...Top 10...math never being our best subject) of the year!  Shame on anyone who says rawk is dead!  As long as we're drinking, dancing, rebelling, fucking, and smoking or inhaling funny stuff, the 3-chord wonder will always be there to carry us through those jukejoint nights and lonely days!

Ultimately, let's toss "rankings" out the window...every one of these rekkids is essential!

Sit back, crack a cold one, and enjoy!  We'll try to better in the coming year.

The Big Rock Candy Mountain Best of 2014 (Part 4)



















10. catl: This Shakin' House


catl continue to destroy stereos, with a blooze'n'groove assault, shoutin' over tribal rhythm, man/woman cave stomp, 2-person burning house, shuddered shotgun shack riddled in short sharp shocked primal kerosene, bang bang bang the neanderthal beat over nasty geetar strings on blistered ashes, the sound of fallen buildings and gutted basement, stained charcoal and blood.  One of our very favorite bands, who do no wrong and continue to raze the fields, lit up and bright red on the dial.  Worship.




























9. Miriam: Nobody's Baby

Miriam Linna (A-Bone and co-founder of Norton Records), spins out her first proper solo rekkid, a bubblegum/gurl groop/wall o'sound platter with a shade of wistful noir.  Summer days at the Tastee Freeze, nights at the drive-in, bad boys from the wrong side of the tracks, hot rods, and perfect eternal sound of broken hearts.  Lovely.































8. Nikki Lane: All Or Nothin' 


Like Lydia Loveless, Nikki Lane extends a giant middle finger to the current signifiers of Women in Country music (particularly to the crop of so-called outlaw musicians, who peddle pseudo rebellion safely packaged in Nashville shine).  Her voice hearkening to the big boomers like Wanda Jackson and Neko Case, cocky and full of spit, the instrumentation ranging from desert noir to Owen Bradley lushness to barroom hoedown to dusty backroad ramble, it's a stunner of a rekkid, full of confidence, grit and lots of fuck yous.  Essential.























7. David Kilgour and the Heavy 8's: End Times Undone

Kilgour (one third of the very mighty Clean) reunites with the Heavy 8's for another flawless rekkid of swirling, surging, jangled geetar, heavenly pop beauty.  Something in the water in New Zealand...drone and shimmered, autumnal and full of twinkled psychedelic stars, the milky way bright in frosted night, stand and say a small good thing, yes and yes again, beauty.



























6. Lee Fields and the Expressions: Emma Jean

Classic Soul for the Now Generation, Fields does it cool, a rasped 'n' silken voice takin' ya higher! No studio'n'beats warbled nonsense, just horns and chicken scratch geetar, hollerin' and wooin', deep down rhythm 'n' blues, love and heartache...This cat should be huge...shake and grind, burn down the jukejoint!

Lee Fields and the Expressions: Just Can't Win (mp3)




















5. Cannibal Ramblers: No. 4


Dirty, dirty, dirty....mud-caked destruction, deeper than deep Blues, pounded floorboards, moonshine still in flames, bend yr ear for a moment muthafuka, Poontar (yes, it's a real geetar) ramble slide and distorto mudflaps slappin' up against mouth harp blood spit.  More on these cats down the line...


Cannibal Ramblers: Last Night I Drank Too Much (live) (mp3)





















4. Jim Mize: Jim Mize

'Merica's true poet laureate...a songwriter worthy of whispered awe, with a rugged voice and ragged glory, the smallness human experience laid bare and transcendent...a whiskey at midnight, street lights through grimed windows shining blurry, figures appearing and disappearing in only snapshot instances, a story not begun or ended, but  captured halfway, alive for ticks of an eternal clock.  Live in space between the raindrops, we were here and this is how we briefly flamed and flickered.


Jim Mize: I Won't Come Back Again (mp3)






















3. Daddy Long Legs: Blood From A Stone





The band, a 3-piece, blows yr speakers with sonic jukejoint joy, wailing and stomping, harmonica blasting gravel roads into dirt tracks leading to an overhang of weeping willows, moonlight shining on a slow moving river, the barges battlin' with drift and silt.  That skiff oared by Huckleberry on a meth binge, throbbing speakers disturbin' gators and skeeters, the loud sound, the groove, the dirty down low. 

Man, these cats know how to kick yr ass.





































2. John Schooley: The Man Who Rode The Mule Around the World 
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 John Schooley and Walter Daniels: Dead Mall Blues


John Schooley is revered as one of thee great "one man bands" currently kicking up polluted dust out there in the rawk and the roll.   Walter Daniels (the most evil harmonica player in the world) has blown out yr speakers for years on all yr favorite scuzzbloozerawktrash albums.  What the hell happens when they meet up?  Nirvana? Salvation?  100 virgins?  Or...2 rekkids of garbage collection perfection, apocalyptic destruction and back porch wobble, sugar cane bonfire, and shimmy she wobble gutbucket glory.

The Man Who Rode the Mule Around the World busts the jukejoint wide open...the typical one-man band joined by a few folks with embellishments, and Walter Daniels huffing fumes over the proceedings....but ultimately a man and his stomp box'n'bloody stringed hollerin' careening over shack shake spizz fried junkyard cowblooze.

Destroy, oh boy.

Dead Mall Blues is the end of the road...an acoustic nod to the sharecropper goat hollerin' six string drag and harmonica jizz flecked bastard dancing herky jerky over poppin' embers lighting willow trees on droop down fire, a hill blazing orange over wood and soil...


John Schooley: Pray For the Lights to Go Out (mp3)

John Schooley and Walter Daniels: We Got to Meet Death One Day (mp3)


















1.5 Lou Shields: American Relic

We hope to have an interview up shortly on Mr. Shields, where we can discuss his unique vocal style and his amazing array of home-made geetars and rhythm devices.  It's some truly fascinating stuff.  For now...

A record full of travel, a restless heart, the highways sepia toned and blurring by, from back porch to back porch, front porch to front porch, along the hard-bitten gravel and tar-smoked white lines.  Yelped Appalachia skate park wheel burn meets cotton fields fresh and prickled, meets western mountain range in love.  Almost every song is about movement, about nomad, about loss and finding of place.  Where we've been, stretching miles and caffeine strung, and where we're going, wide open and full of promise and discovery.  A stunning, and, dare we say, important rekkid, a travelogue of a disintegrating way of life, one viewed keenly and full of hope.  Stay tuned...we've got more to say on Mr. Shields.

Lou Shields: Aint Been Back Home (mp3)





















What we said earlier this year:


Legend suggests this rekkid was recorded in one day (produced by Yo La Tengo's James McNew) at a rehearsal space (Superb Owl), and live in one take...which is exactly what the world needs.  The first track alone, a cover of Heinz's"Questions I Can't Answer" , kicks off with the words "ready" and a squalling spooge-soaked geetar freakout before turning on the jets and blasting out a screaming rawk slab of sonic goodness, with a frenzy of snot vocals and tribal pounding, it leaves yr speakers destroyed and panting post-orgasmic trashcan copulation.
And that's just the beginning.  Running through a range of covers (some of which, we have to shame-facedly admit, we had to research) and a couple of originals, the rekkid clocks in under 40 minutes (remember when that was the proper time for an LP to last?) and that's a recommendation.  Complete and utter destruction, loudnfastnouttacontrol, distorted back and forth vocals between Ms. Linna, Mr. Miller, and Mr. Kaplan (see, particularly "Luci Bains", an out and out destroyer),  beat, beat, beat in primal sex explosion, oh yeah, everything gonna be allright, skronking sax (courtesy of Stan Zenkoff), organ, electric piano abuse, nasty and dangerous.  Dangerous is important.
It's hard to single out a single song (other than the ones mentioned above)...it's such a piece of brief rawk...but "Little School Boy" with a lead by Miriam Linna (wailing to the break of dawn) and "Catahoula Stomp" (with insane organ) are contenders.  As are "Just a Little Bit of You", with it's menace and "Tulane", travelling dark highways. (next week, we'll have new favorites!).
The A-Bones are your favorite band, even if you didn't know it!  Man, we're sweaty just thinking about the rekkid, daddy-o! 











Support the artists!  Buy their rekkids!  Vinyl will always be yr friend!




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Thanks for all the great music you posted, I'm looking forward to 2015.

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This was an awesome list and turned me on to a bunch of great new stuff! Dunno how I missed Nikki Lane! Thanks for taking the time to put this together.

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Hey man, hope you're OK? Miss the traditional Xmas xtravaganza but I have so many great tunes saved up from previous years I'm all set for now. Take care and hope to see you bloggin' again!

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