Artist: Hollis Brown
Album: Gets Loaded
Bitrate: 264kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Alive
Genre: Rock
Size: 88.11 megs
PlayTime: 0h 44min 50sec total
Rip Date: 2014-05-30
Store Date: 2014-05-20
Track List:
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01. Oh Sweet Nuthin' 7:47
02. Train Round The Bend 3:20
03. I Found A Reason 4:33
04. Lonesome Cowboy Bill 3:19
05. Head Held High 3:03
06. New Age 5:28
07. Cool It Down 4:59
08. Rock & Roll 5:05
09. Sweet Jane 4:36
10. Who Loves The Sun 2:40
Release Notes:
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New York City's Hollis Brown (a band, not a person) have a tight, sparse classic
rock sound that incorporates melodic pop, slight country touches, and,
underneath it all, a kind of bedrock blues sensibility, all of which makes their
roots-oriented sound feel warm and genuine. They bring those same qualities to
this set, but it is still a bit of a curve ball, given that it isn't an album of
new songs from songwriters Mike Montali and Jon Bonilla, but is instead a
song-for-song re-creation of the Velvet Underground's 1970 classic album Loaded,
which means these are Lou Reed songs, done with reverence, but gently
re-imagined. Gets Loaded, which was released in support of Record Store Day,
began when Hollis Brown was asked to perform at New York City's Bowery Electric
at a tribute show for Reed in November of 2013. The band performed Loaded live
in its entirety, later repeating the feat in the studio for this release. Loaded
was arguably the Velvet Underground's most accessible and commercially
successful album, featuring Reed and VU classics like "Sweet Jane," "Rock &
Roll," and "Head Held High," and Hollis Brown do not try to note-for-note them,
but simply fold these songs into their own style, although for some reason they
reverse Loaded's running order, opening with "Oh Sweet Nuthin'" and closing with
"Who Loves the Sun." It's a fun and rootsy spin on N.Y.C.'s greatest ever rock
band by a young band that's pretty good in its own right.