Artist: Honey Island Swamp Band
Album: Demolition Day
Bitrate: 238kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Ruf Records
Genre: Rock
Size: 91.90 megs
PlayTime: 0h 51min 00sec total
Rip Date: 2016-07-02
Store Date: 2016-06-16
Track List:
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01. How Do You Feel 4:47
02. Head High Water Blues 3:55
03. No Easy Way 5:47
04. Medicated 4:14
05. Watch And Chain 4:11
06. Katie 2:51
07. Ain't No Fun 4:01
08. She Goes Crazy 5:20
09. Through Another Day 5:34
10. Say It Isn't True 3:58
11. Devil's Den 6:22
Release Notes:
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As anyone whoÆs seen Honey Island Swamp Band lately can attest, they like to
stretch things out. Last year at Jazz Fest they set a possible record by playing
a mere 5 songs in a 50-minute set. But while jamming onstage is fine, when you
hit the studio youÆve gotta have the songs. No problem on HISBÆs fourth album,
one that really underlines the diversity of their material.
The musical foundation hasnÆt changed: TheyÆll still remind you of the Stones at
times, the Band or the Radiators at othersùand I also thought of the Drive-By
Truckers, another proudly Southern band with two main songwriters, one
(Patterson Hood in the Truckers, Chris Mule in HISB) who writes the more epic
numbers and the other (Mike Cooley in DBT, Aaron Wilkinson in HISB) whoÆs got
the sweeter touch and the drier wit. The comparisons end there though, because
HISB sound here like a band able to take on whatever shape the material demands.
When they draw from classic New Orleans R&B (on the opening ôHow Do You Feelö)
theyÆre a hopped-up roadhouse band; on ôNo Easy Wayö they take on an
easy-rolling Caribbean feel. And ôShe Goes Crazyö introduces some drunk-sounding
Dixieland horns that perfectly suit the lyricÆs tale of an obsessive girlfriend
and a guy who doesnÆt mind a bit. Indeed, the lyrics here evince an eccentricity
that seldom gets noticed, whether theyÆre sticking the line ôShe loves me like a
rubber hoseö into a romantic tune, or recalling (on ôAinÆt No Funö) a love
affair that went bad as soon as the girlfriendÆs brother kicked the singer in
the head.
Producer Luther Dickinson gives this album a slightly different feel than the
HISBÆs previous three: There are fewer outright rockers, and a layered sound
(with horns, keyboards and mandolin) with less emphasis on guitar. While the
songs are shorter than theyÆd be live, he does allow some jamming space, with a
slide/mandolin tradeoff on ôThrough Another Dayö and a long, swampy intro that
sets up ôDevilÆs Den.ö If they want to stretch these tunes to 10 minutes onstage
theyÆll get no complaints from us.