Artist: The Cadillac Three
Album: Legacy
Bitrate: 254kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Big Machine Records
Genre: Rock
Size: 66.22 megs
PlayTime: 0h 34min 31sec total
Rip Date: 2017-09-15
Store Date: 2017-08-25
Track List:
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01. Cadillacin' 3:10
02. Tennessee 2:33
03. Hank & Jesus 3:52
04. Dang If We Didn't 2:59
05. Ain't That Country 3:30
06. American Slang 3:07
07. Take Me To The Bottom 3:11
08. Long Hair Don't Care 2:43
09. Love Me Like Liquor [feat. Lori 3:07
McKenna]
10. Demolition Man 3:02
11. Legacy 3:17
Release Notes:
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Anyone still banging on about the death of rock hasnÆt checked the country scene
recently. A riotous assemblage of southern-fried shit-kickers have stolen
rockÆnÆrollÆs heart, and are holding it ransom somewhere below the Mason-Dixon
Line. Blackberry Smoke, Whiskey Myers, A Thousand Horses, Lee Bains III & The
Glory Firesà the list is longer than a coast-to-coast bootleg run.
The Cadillac Three sit at the confluence of these two grand American traditions.
The trioÆs third album, the grandly titled but stubbornly unpretentious Legacy,
yokes the twang of country music to rockÆs fuck you attitude. The result is as
potent as a batch of freshly distilled moonshine.
The Cadillac ThreeÆs original modus operandi û the missing link between
Metallica and Lynyrd Skynyrd û has been abandoned by the side of the road
somewhere along the way. Given it was a fairly clunky idea to start with, thatÆs
not the worst thing in the world. They sound way more comfortable in their skin
these days, easing back on the heaviness in favour of an altogether more relaxed
blend of heat-haze guitars and sippinÆ-whiskey-on-the-porch grooves.
Not that theyÆve thrown the baby out with the bath water. TC3 are still chiefly
preoccupied with three things: booze, good times and being from the south. Well
over half of the songs on Legacy include a reference to alcohol, not least
Tennessee (a celebration of the Volunteer StateÆs fine musical heritage that
name checks fellow outlaw Sturgill Simpson) and rubber-limbed hangover anthem
Dang If We DidnÆt, a song whose sloppy grin suggests itÆs not quite as contrite
about what it got up to as it pretends to be. Even on Hank & Jesus, a
celebration of two of country musicÆs iconic figures (thatÆs Messrs Williams and
H Christ, in case you were wondering) a bottle isnÆt far away. æI was baptised
in whiskey,Æ singer Jaren Johnston croaks in that Tennessee twang, and you kind
of believe him.
But Legacy is best when they slide out of the General Lee and step away from the
Dukes Of Hazard shtick: American Slang is sleek modern radio rock with a side
order of melancholic nostalgia that nods equally to Bruce Springsteen and the
Kings Of Leon; the subdued closing title track finds Johnstone in introspective
mood, musing that his legacy wonÆt be his music so much as his family. You can
take the boy out of Nashville, etc.
The Cadillac Three wonÆt win any awards for originality, but then that isnÆt
really their job. RockÆnÆroll is safe in countryÆs hands.