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ARTIST
MAERCKS, OWEN
TITLE
Kinds of Blue
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
FEEDING TUBE RECORDS
CATALOG #
FTR 478LP
FTR 478LP
GENRE
EXPERIMENTAL
RELEASE DATE
10/11/2019
"Four decades after his last solo LP,
Teenage Sex Therapist
(FTR 153-2LP),
Owen Maercks
is back with a new one. Crazily, much of the same gang is on hand for
Kinds of Blue
. Guitarist
Henry Kaiser
was even the instigator of this project (as he so often is), suggesting it was time for Owen to cut the blues album they'd always talked about. Saxophonists
Larry Ochs
(
ROVA
) and
John Oswald
(
Plunderphonics
) are also back to blow gorgeous squalls. There's a new rhythm section in town --
Doug Sovern
on bass and
Scott Amendola
on drums -- and they sound great, laying down whatever sounds are required as a base for the most-cracked blues wailing of Owen's guitar and vocals. The choice of cover tunes should be read as some sort of key.
Lonesome Sundown
's "Love Me Now" replaces some of its original swamp vibe with an approach one might liken to
Bobby "Blue" Bland
's sophisto-hunch. "Blue Monk" is a wonderfully fractured spin on a par with
Chadbourne
's visits to the
Thelonious
songbook. And
Robert Pete Williams
' "Wrong" hews to its original acoustic and violent intent, although it also manifests a few lateral spasms that might have given its author gout. The originals are similarly eclectic. "Wild Time" is a full-on blast of guitar-based zonkery. "Burnin'" is
Hooker
shuffle that will have your foot stomping involuntarily. "Beautiful to Me" is alternate universe songsterism in the vein of
Sex Therapist
. "Iceland Boogie" is the first known blues song to tackle the topic of Reykjavik's archaic gambling laws, using a somewhat
Beefheart
ian framework to do so. And "Prayin' on Me" finishes the album with an extended display of different ways to sing and play about blowjobs, which should provide a template for any young band interested in the bj genre. Is there a coda? You tell me. How many kinds of blue can one man have? The varieties are endless, dear friends. And some of the best answers ever posited to that question are now available on this handy platter." --
Byron Coley
, 2019. Edition of 500.
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