Artist: Dead Fingers
Album: Dead Fingers
Bitrate: 226kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Affairs Of The Heart
Genre: Rock
Size: 66.67 megs
PlayTime: 0h 38min 59sec total
Rip Date: 2012-10-26
Store Date: 2012-10-26
Track List:
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01. Closet Full Of Bones 3:03
02. Another Planet 3:07
03. 4 Stone Coaches 4:12
04. Hold On To 3:39
05. Ring Around Saturn 3:20
06. Please Don't Let Me Go 3:24
07. Against The River 3:41
08. On My Way 3:34
09. Lost In Mississippi 4:26
10. Never Be My Man 3:30
11. Wheels And Gasoline 3:03
Release Notes:
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Dead Fingers, the husband-and-wife duo of Taylor Hollingsworth and Kate Taylor,
does not arrive without pedigree. Hollingsworth played guitar, wrote, and sang
with Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band, while his wife has played keyboards
and sung with her sister, neo-folk singer/songwriter Maria Taylor. Together,
however, they pursue an Americana sound that seems to touch on all the roots
music bases without getting generic. The Birmingham, Alabama-based couple
handles a wealth of instruments between them, including guitars, lap steel,
acoustic and electric pianos, organ, and percussion, and they're supported by a
handful of helpers on bass, drums, horns, etc., but the arrangements throughout
Dead Fingers' self-titled debut album are sparsely appointed. All the better for
tapping into the earthy, organic vibe that's essential to getting the most from
this kind of pan-roots approach. "4 Stone Coaches," for example, is an affecting
folk-rock tune full of deft acoustic fingerpicking and poignant lyrics, and the
gentle boom-chicka-boom of "On My Way" suggests that other wedded Americana duo,
Johnny Cash and June Carter. Things get edgy here too, though -- "Against the
River" comes off like Lynyrd Skynyrd getting drunk with Beggars Banquet-era
Rolling Stones, while the gutbucket blues of "Lost in Mississippi" runs on raw,
rattling slide guitar, and is leavened by goofy, tongue-in-cheek lyrics. And
when Dead Fingers unleash the ragged, electric blues stomp of "Never Be My Man,"
we're reminded that this album is distributed via Fat Possum Records, and
produced by Bruce Watson, who made the label's name in the æ90s by bringing the
razor-edged Mississippi blues of R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough to the
world. Of course, Dead Fingers would seem out of place alongside those artists,
but their debut nevertheless shows that they've at least got an equal amount of
honest, American heart.