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░██░▄▓▄ ░ Artist :......: Tarbox Ramblers ░ ▄▓▄░██░
░██░ ▀ Album :.......: A Fix Back East (Advance) ▀ ░██░
░░██▓ ░ Rls Date :....: 12/08/2003 ░ ▓██░
░░██▓░ Retail :......: 01/27/2004 ░▓██░
░▓██▓░ ▀▀██▄ Label :.......: Rounder Records ▄██▀▀ ░▓██░░
░███▓░ ░██▓ Genre :.......: Blues ▓██░ ░▓███░
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01 2:58 Already Gone
02 4:18 Were You There?
03 2:50 Country Blues (Dock Boggs)
04 4:41 A Fix Back East
05 3:32 No Night There (Traditional)
06 2:43 Honey Babe
07 5:17 Cloth Of Gold
08 3:10 The Shining Sun
09 5:24 From The Algiers Station
10 2:29 Last Month Of The Year
11 5:07 Ashes To Ashes
42:29 Total Playing Time - Total Size 58MB
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Four years ago, when the Tarbox Ramblers introduced their
train wreck of swamp blues, hillbilly, gospel, and woolly
folk, the North Mississippi Allstars, Black Keys, Fiery
Furnaces, or that Detroit band with the funny clothes,
weren't even blips on the screen. Now they're the
competition. It's OK, it's a big world, and with A Fix Back
East, the Tarbox Ramblers go down into the deep reaches of
their frontman's collective American Gothic psyche, and
dredge up the ghosts, the faded photographs, the myths and
texts of a time that may never have existed in the popular
consciousness. This is a much wilder record; yet it's very
rawness contains starkly beautiful textures that are
drenched in sepia-toned images, and black and white
newsreels from the focal point of the ravaged human heart.
The album opens with a huge, R.L. Burnside-styled barroom
record machine groove. Using the riff from "Honey Hush," and
warping it all to hell, Michael Tarbox indulges his
iconographic marriage of rural loneliness, backwater
holiness, and steaming sex, which, immediately after is
dragged through a drunkenly redemptive version of "Were You
There (When They Crucified My Lord?)" where violins,
electric guitars, and echoing drums from time immemorial try
to match the grief and longing in Tarbox's convicted voice.
But it's right back to hell in the band's caveman read of
Dock Boggs' "Country Blues," with a roiling slide guitar all
nasty and distorted, like it was calling from the devil's
playground. And this is where it all starts. From the
elegiac loss and shimmer of the title track, to the
backwoods two-step of the American traditional song, "No
Night There," to the murderous gutter blues of "Honey Babe,"
this is a slash and burn affair that holds it secrets close,
and offers its dirty treasures abundantly and regally ù if
the parades in Robert Frank's The Americans are your idea of
majesty. Produced by Jim Dickinson, Paul Q. Kolderie, and
Sean Slade, this is the banshee's howl after all the liquor
is gone; it's the drunken, lascivious, preacher's moan when
he's still in the whorehouse at seven a.m. on Sunday
morning; a dying bluesman's final snarl at a world that's
left him empty and broke, and a brokenhearted cowboy's last
lament ù all rolled into one.
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