ARTIST: The Incurables
TITLE: Songs For A Blackout
LABEL: CD Baby
GENRE: Rock
TIME: 44:56 min
SIZE: 69,5 MB
RIP DATE: Dec-15-2007
RELEASE DATE: Nov-06-2007
WEBSITE: n/a
Track List:
01. Lucky 7's 04:11
02. Our Favorite Place 03:38
03. Heart Grenade 03:33
04. Anytime Soon 04:19
05. Rather Be Lonely Than Sorry 04:39
06. Hotel Nowhere 04:30
07. Contrition Blues 03:54
08. Gravedance 03:25
09. Farther 03:41
10. Like A Star 03:39
11. The Last Day of The Rest of Your Life 05:27
Release Notes:
Jimmy Griffin is the definition of a St. Louis rock
& roll lifer. He almost broke into the bigtime with
the early-'90s pop-metal band Kingofthehill, played
lead guitar in the final incarnation of Nadine and
continues to rock the cover-band circuit with Tiny
Cows. The Incurables, however, marks his first time
out as a bandleader. This group uses the same
players as the Jason Hutto-fronted Walkie Talkie
U.S.A., of which Griffin is also a member. (Both men
take turns playing Keith to each other's Mick,
depending on whose band is headlining.) But where
Walkie Talkie goes for buzzy, driving power-pop, the
Incurables sticks to a slower pace and a more open
feel that splits the difference somewhere between
the classicist pop of Wings and the low-slung
story-songs of the Wallflowers. Griffin is known
first and foremost as an axe slinger, and while
there are a handful of hot licks scattered
throughout the disc, he keeps the focus on the
lyrics. His voice has a sweetly ragged quality, and
the songs are more often melodically whispered than
expressly sung. It's a style that works perfectly on
a song such as "Hotel Nowhere," which has barroom
piano and upright bass that manages to mix elements
of jazz and soul before turning into a country
weeper. The band goes for broke on closing track,
"The Last Day of the Rest of Your Life," as the
slippery guitar lines and heavy piano chords
threaten to turn into the oceanic coda of "Layla" ù
although that wouldn't be a bad thing. ù Christian
Schaeffer