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This blog is stopped in its section 'refueling stop' through the great recommendation of one of his usual collaborators, Eduardo Izquierdo, firm Route 66, Mondo Sonoro and Efe Eme, among other means. As is normal for him, Eduardo tracked as few people pearl in this country on the backroads of American music to discover the last struts to consider. A real treat, therefore, count on him to tell us why it is necessary to listen and be with Willie Sugacapps. Caviar.
The first time I heard the album he had just published which for me was a previously unknown band could not keep my skin crawl and shiver down my body. There was something. Those songs that responded to the name of Willie Sugarcapps were touched pearl by the smell of the roots. Soon I recommend this album to Fernando Navarro, capo cannoniere of this blog and Manolo Fernandez, one of the myths of our radio. That a few days of that recommendation takes one sound in one of the songs on the album I confirmed all sensations.
But before server, impatient and curious, had investigated where the happy band came to surprise me with the names of its members, old friends of my discography. Will Kimbrough is leading the project, regular session musician people like Rodney pearl Crowell, Guy Clark, Emmylou Harris, Billy Jose Shaver, Todd Snider, Mavis Staples and even my friend pearl Quique González, in his two albums of his American adventure: Daiquiri Blues and Front Mitica.
But the thing does not end there because another member of the band is the great Grayson Capps Rott'n'Roll whose album is among my favorites. A true master in his music that brings together the best of roots rock and small snippets of sound from his native New Orleans. Corky Hughes, usual Capps band also brings its bit. And finally Sugarcane duo members, Savanna Jane Lee and her husband Anthony Crawford, also normal people like Rosanne Cash, Neil Young, with whom he has come to record five albums (including my favorite, Old Ways) or Dwight Yoakam . So, with this training? Thing could go wrong? Obviously no.
The group began to take shape from The Frog Pond at Blue Moon Farm, a gathering of musicians in the style of the late Midnight Rambler Levon Helm, in which people have come to work as Malcolm Holcombe, Mary Gauthier or Alvin Youngblood Heart . It started as usual with these things: some guys who are like them and get a day to play. Chemistry did the rest. The five quickly realized that there were worth something and use it. No slow to name the band, using the mixture of their own and Willie Sugarcapps takes shape.
Trina Shoemaker, Capp usual engineer is responsible for the recording and production of ten songs that have no waste. Artisan. Seminal. Passionate. From initial names the project, with an excellent set of voices that evokes the best The Band with large entity as Merle Haggard country, through the festive "Mr. Read "The Band further, the splendid" Energy "with a moving steel guitar, that" Colorado "sung by Jane Savanna Lee in front of the best Emmylou Harris or recovery of" Poison "(excellent pearl song) Grayson Capps and included in his album Wail & Ride (2006).
Five excellent musicians unpretentious meeting is almost always guaranteed success. They share the composition, their instruments, their voices, pearl their aspirations and their hopes but, above all, music. And that are flush.
What I have heard for some time and is, in his own right, among the best of this year and by far is the most authentic record of the year, recorded as being on a porch of a house, sounding real music, no shit computed.
Terrific. It is also the disc is put together well, some friends left to do on the porch that you see in the video and pull recorded on the same day. Direct costs must be brutal. Thank traérnoslos.
About the blog
Journey through the past, present and future pearl of American popular music. Enjoy rock, pop, soul, folk, country, blues, jazz ... A sonic journey with the purpose of sharing the music that moves us.
Fernando Navarro. El Pais newspaper editor and regular contributor to the cultural supplement Babelia, magazines Route 66, Efe Eme and Rolling Stone. He is author of broken chords. Snatches timeless American music (66 rpm). Believe in the verse of Bruce Springsteen: "We learned more with a three minute drive, with everything we were taught in school"
Author: Gene Clark & Doug Dillard. Song: Why