REIGNING SOUND - 'LOVE & CURSES'

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• ITR155CD - CD

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• ITR155 - LP

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**Check out the ONE PAGE FEATURE in this months UNCUT..rave reviews in MOJO and Uncut...and there's more UNCUT have blogged** It's been five long years since Greg Cartwright's Reigning Sound dropped their last full-length studio album, Too Much Guitar. Not that Cartwright has been resting on his laurels by any means. The Reigning Sound backed the Shangri-La's Mary Weiss on her critically acclaimed comeback album, Dangerous Game, which was produced and largely written by Cartwright. The band backed Weiss on tour and even appeared with her on the Conan O'Brien show. Greg Cartwright also produced, penned songs for and played in the Detroit Cobras for a spell. All the while the Reigning Sound toured the US on and off and released a couple of live albums, yet they never managed to get into the studio to record. All the while Greg was stock-piling loads of new tunes. Finally late last year the band went into Ardent studios in Memphis and laid down a bunch of songs. Then, some months later, the band went into Echo Mountain studios in North Carolina and recorded a bunch more. In the end the band had more than enough for two albums. After carefully whittling it down to the cream of the musical crop Love & Curses is here and is guaranteed to please all long time fans and will no doubt gain them many new ones. Love & Curses (title comes from Memphis TV horror host Sivad) is a return to the sound and style of the band's incredible Time Bomb High School. The band once again features a full time keyboardist, Dave Amels, and has jettisoned the lo-fi approach used on Too Much Guitar in favor of a bigger, warmer studio sound. As with Time Bomb High School, the album strikes a balance between soulful rockers and beautiful ballads. The results are a rock n' roll album as near to perfection as any you're likely to hear this year. Watch for the Reigning Sound on tour in the US and Europe this fall.

Tracks

1 Break It For Me

2 Trash Talk

3 Call Me

4 I Hear Bells

5 Only Want You More

6 Something To Hold Onto

7 Dangerous Game

8 Don't Bring It Down

9 Debris

10 Stick Up For Me

11 Love Won't Leave You A Song

12 Polly Anne

13 Is It True

14 Banker & A Liar

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JACK ROSE & THE BLACK TWIG PICKERS - 'S/T'

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• KLANG008 - LP

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Yeah well, you know, everyone's importing this tasty piece..lovely on vinyl, CD out on Beautiful Happiness..vinyl actually in stock, we didnt get many..CD out in two weeks; we have a few of the nice vinyl version on KLANG, Raw and rocking collaboration between JACK ROSE and THE BLACK TWIG PICKERS with some of the most swinging, hard-hitting string music waxed in many a decade. Rose's solo playing has always had a tough edge, with his prodigious technique often employed in the service of dropping right-hand bombs-his use of a thumbpick originates from his years of duets with Twig MIKE GANGLOFF, struggling to make his guitar heard over Gangloff's crashing banjo. The front line of Rose and Gangloff's strings are joined by ISAK HOWELL's no-nonsense guitar and harmonica and NATE BOWLES' variety of expert percussion. The four players lock together with a sure-footedness honed by frequent touring and a singularity of intent to rock. Gangloff takes the vocals, howling out standards like "Little Sadie" firmly in the old-time tradition-without reserve. A few of the tracks here are updates of Rose & family classics, with the group turning the stately "Kensington Blues" upbeat and an issuing an assured take on "Bright Sunny South," first recorded by PELT (with Rose and Gangloff) back in 2001 on their gonzo classic double Ayahuasca.

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