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Artist | The Last Hurrah!!
Title | Mudflowers
Genre | Indie Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 37:02
Label | Rune Grammofon Store | 2015
Catalog | RCD 2171 Rip | 2015
Bitrate | 241 kbps Size | 68.29 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. Okay 2:48
02. The Weight Of The Moon 3:59
03. Can't Wait No More 3:56
04. Fairweather Friend 2:58
05. You Ain't Got Nothing 2:40
06. Those Memories 2:25
07. Is It Me 3:17
08. You Soothe Me 6:12
09. Tried To Lose You 5:20
10. The Jig 3:27
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The Last Hurrah!! is an international pop/rock project whose constantly
evolving lineup creates sounds drawing heavily from the music of the 60s
and early 70s. The project was assembled in 2010 by successful veteran
producer and multi-instrumentalist HP Gundersen (Sondra Lerche, Madrugada,
Ane Brun, Tim Rose). He became obsessed with Stephen Stills' 'secret
tuning' on "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," and he spent some time exploring music
based on open, modal guitar tunings, hence his term for The Last Hurrah!!'s
music: 'drone guitar'.
Mudflowers is the third long player from HP Gundersen's ever-evolving
recording project The Last Hurrah!!. As with the noted Norwegian producer's
first two albums under this moniker, the band is completely different this
time out and so is the music. This set directly references Los Angeles,
particularly its country-rock scene, though Gundersen couldn't resist
weaving in some British-flavored psych pop, blues, and even a little soul.
It features an international cast fronted by California vocalist and
songwriter Maesa Pullman (daughter of actor Bill) on all but two cuts -
delivered by her cousin Rita. Veteran pedal steel player Marty Rifkin is a
constant, and emergent session drummer Kiel Feher handles all but one cut,
which features a guest spot by Nashville's Larry Mullins.
The explicit eros in "Can't Wait No More" contrasts girl group pop and
Capitol Studio groove if it were played in a smoky, dimly lit honky tonk.
Rita Pullman's lead vocal on "You Ain't Got Nothing" has the structure of a
carefully constructed British pop single from the mid-'60s, but the whining
steel guitar amid Gundersen's rave-up guitar licks makes it almost
perverse. "You Soothe Me" is Hammond-fueled blues with stinging, swampy
licks threaded between the two guitars and organ, then slips briefly into
the Scandinavian psych terrain of Parson Sound, Harvester, and TrΣd, GrΣs
och Stenar, with Pullman's voice at its most sultry.
"Tried to Lose You" is another blues, but it's harder and hotter, with
wailing harmonica, furious Latin conga, and funky drum work. On Mudflowers,
Gundersen threads so many sounds, genres, styles, and nuances through one
another that in the end, he ends up erasing the boundaries that separate
them. In trying to re-create the music he's long admired - all at once -
through The Last Hurrah!!'s kaleidoscopic persona, he's moved beyond the
trappings of mere nostalgia. Via the music of Mudflowers, the historical
past is vital and ever present.
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