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​Mostly we put our daily recommendations here for the blog readers among you, although occasionally we go longform.
Reading about music is a bit like looking at pictures of food - not nearly half as much fun as getting involved, so we scribble a brief intro to hopefully whet your appetite but you're better off just hitting play. Not very "slow" I know but there's a lot of music to check these days & hopefully you'll find the recommendations a handy filter.
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12/1/2021 0 Comments

Bobby Lee - Shakedown in Slabtown (NATURAL HISTORIES)

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WHAT WE SAY:

Sounding like a peyote popping, double dropping Deadhead on a dusty desert bender, Sheffield's Bobby Lee luckily doesn't let the North of England's lack of wide open sun dried planes get in the way of creating some of the best cosmic country & swampy astral Americana around.
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WHAT YOUR EARS SAY:

WHAT THE RELEASE NOTES SAY:

Recorded to ¼” tape, Shakedown In Slabtown is a sunscorched ramble through widescreen guitar instrumentalism, down-home gospel, Kosmische repetition and swampy country choogle with the hiss left in.

Bobby is joined by Guy Whittaker (Sharron Kraus, Jim Ghedi, Big Eyes) on drums and percussion, Mark Armstrong on electric bass and keys plus a primitive drum machine groove last heard on Suicide's debut or JJ Cale’s early records.

Owing as much to The Durutti Column as Ry Cooder, the album takes in stripped back traditionals, fuzzed out folk funk, Hired Hand-style acoustic vignettes and wide eyed rural rock. In the grand power-trio tradition, the album closes with a live rave up; an 11min+ elongated deconstruction of Warren Zevon’s Join Me in LA, equal parts Dr John’s Gris Gris, E2E4 and CCR vamp.

Bobby Lee - Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Harmonica, Drum Machine
Mark Armstrong - Bass Guitars, Keys, Post Production
Guy Whittaker - Drums, Percussion
Ric Booth - Fiddle on How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?
Brian Ellis - Percussion

Engineered and Mixed on 1/4" Tape by Brian Ellis at Portland Works, Sheffield, Summer 2019.

Mastered by Dean Honer

Artwork by Santi Oviedo.
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