Artist: Damon Fowler
Album: Sounds Of Home
Bitrate: 230kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Blind Pig Records
Genre: Blues
Size: 87.10 megs
PlayTime: 0h 50min 07sec total
Rip Date: 2014-01-16
Store Date: 2014-01-21
Track List:
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01. Thought I Had It All 5:18
02. Sounds Of Home 4:22
03. Trouble 4:46
04. Spark 3:16
05. Old Fools, Bar Stools And Me 4:30
06. Where I Belong 4:01
07. Grit My Teeth 5:27
08. Alison 3:42
09. TV Mama 5:13
10. Do It For The Love 5:59
11. I Shall Not Be Moved 3:33
Release Notes:
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You wonder if there might have been a mistake on his birth certificate. The way
this guy plays guitar, his given name should have been Demon instead of Damon
Fowler. The fiery guitarist's slide, dobro and lap steel riffs have been
snapping heads around since his '99 debut, Riverview Drive, produced and played
on by legendary rocker Rick Derringer.
But as he has proved with a string of albums for Blind Pig beginning with '09's
Sugar Shack, Fowler doesn't need any help getting his message across. A blend of
sacred steel, backwater blues and howling, greasy swamp rock, Fowler's music is
a primal, atavistic sound that makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up.
His solo gigs with his skin tight power trio have converted rooms full of
strangers into a loyal congregation who now attend his services regularly, and
his exposure as half of the twin guitar attack (with J.P. Soars) of the newly
convened blues supergroup Southern Hospitality and their March 2013 release Easy
Livin' has given him evangelical status among the faithful.
His latest solo release, Sounds of Home, out Jan 21 on Blind Pig, is a
continuation of his journey into the swampy blues church doctrines he enforces
with his '50s Harmony H44 Stratotone and red Les Paul classic guitars. Tab
Benoit jumps in with some pedal steel on ôDo It For the Loveö and throws in some
acoustic backing on three additional tracks, but the rest is all Fowler, and
that's all you need.
The only other guest is Monk Boudreaux, Big Chief of the Mardi Gras Indian
tribe The Golden Eagles. On the title track, Fowler sets the homeland
scene(ôskeeters humming like a mower cuttin' weeds") before bringing in the
Chief to offer a soulful low-key, Tony Joe White style vocalization of swamp
love as Fowler wrings out licks behind him like barbed wire stretched to the
breaking point.
Elvis Costello's ôAllisonö gets a country soul makeover, Fowler's hoarse rasp
the perfect vehicle for this broken-hearted dirge, his Allman-esque guitar solo
squirting out wire wrapped tears.
ôTV Mamaö is not the Joe Turner vehicle, but the property of Johnny Winter.
Winter's solo version is a back porch stomper with only a thudding footprint for
percussion. Fowler's is a group effort,his electrifried slide guitar moaning
and slithering along in Winter's tracks.
ôI Shall Not Be Movedö glides along at a fast shuffle, Fowler's lap steel
chiming like a church bell, clanging out country go-to-meeting gospel.
Fowler is that rare artist whose studio recordings pack as much of a wallop as
his live shows. This one will pin your ears back and track swamp fonk all over
the place. But these tracks are ones you'll want to keep imbedded underfoot and
in your head, bigfoot swamp prints from a Demon you'll welcome in your house
anytime.