Deer Tick - War Elephant



Deer Tick, who are they and why do have this ridicuously hayseed name? Deer Tick is basically one guy, John McAuley, his musical vision and a few accompanying musicians. But what a musical vision it is. McAuley graduated High School in 2004 which makes him what...about 22 or 23. The music reaches beyond that age. His voice has this worn gravelly quality which he uses to great affect. McAuley hails from Providence Rhode Island and is ready to break upon the world. He is a do it yourself Kurt Cobain, a little bit of Neil Young, some alt country mixed in, and all in all the complete musical package. He knows his way around a song. The jangly street music, "These Old Shoes," will get your toes a' tappin' and the lyrics get you laughing, "It was a no-go, for this hobo." "Art isn't real (City of Sin)," has this 70's AM radio pop folk quality to it. And then there's "Christ Jesus," "I woke up next to the King / Got up and gone fixed me something / And it made me sick how I can't trust him / Christ Jesus / Have you seen us / Down on our hands and our knees / and Tell us what's the Reason." Granted it's not your standard gospel number, but it has human suffering and the depth of the human experience in spades.

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Blue Mountain - Homegrown



No act better epitomizes alternative country than Blue Mountain. This trio from the woods of northern Mississippi is a rock band with twang to spare. The title comes not from a dumb pot joke but from a sense that these tracks sprang from the musicians' backyard. "Homegrown" opens with "Bloody 98," an uptempo blues shuffle that finds singer-guitarist Cary Hudson describing the state highway between Mobile, Alabama, and Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in a nasal moan straight out of Bob Dylan's "Maggie's Farm." Counterbalancing that song is "Babe," one of the most convincing rock & roll odes to marriage ever. The album also contains Hudson's most pointedly political song yet, "Generic America," a galloping folk rock anthem that takes a broad swipe at "shopping malls and prison walls."

~245 kbps VBR

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