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CD
CR 60412
EURO 12,90
Tracks:
1. (Welcome to the) Sun Tangled Angel Revival (6:51)
2. Fly Your Flag High (3:17)
3. In the Land of Plenty (2:29)
4. Everything's So Different Now (4:20)
5. This Train Don't Stop at the Millworks Anymore (7:52)
6. Baby I Just Wanna Go Home (2:45)
7. The Great North Myrtle Beach Pancake Massacre (3:11)
8. Madman Blues (6:14)
9. Epilogue Epitaph in A Minor (2:45) | | INFO
 | Der ehemalige Kopf von Drivin' n' Cryin', mit denen er in den 80er und 90er Jahren sieben Rockalben veröffentlicht und zudem noch 4 folk-orientierte Soloalbum aufgenommen hatte, ist endlich zurück mit einem Album, auf das seine Drivin' n' Cryin'-Fans jahrelang warten mussten. Unter dem Band-Projekt "Sun Tangled Angel Revival" mit Bassist Bryan Howard (Slackdaddy), Drummer Dave V. Johnson (Kathleen Turner Overdrive) und Gitarrist Gibb Droll, unterstützt durch u.a. Joey Huffman (Hammond B3), Widespread Panic-Bassist Dave Schools und Pedal Steeler Adam Musick entstand eine Rock-Scheibe, die man dem Mann eigentlich nicht mehr zugetraut hatte. Sägende, lang ausladende Gitarrensoli, fetzende Orgel-Passagen wie zu besten Doors-Zeiten, dazu die unwiderstehliche und unverkennbare Stimme Kevn Kinneys machen das Album zum besten seit den seligen Drivin' n' Cryin'-Tagen. Produziert hat David Barbe, der schon Alben von Son Volt, Sugar oder Drive-By Truckers veredelt hat. S.T.A.R. passt in diese Referenzliste wie die Faust aufs Auge. Für Gitarrenfans ein absolutes Pflichtteil! |
 | The longtime leader of Drivin' n' Cryin' and sometime solo artist has founded a new band - Sun Tangeld Angel Revival - featuring bassist Bryan Howard (Slackdaddy), drummer Dave V. Johnson (Kathleen Turner Overdrive) and east coast guitar-slinger Gibb Droll. These veteran musicians, augmented by Joey Huffman on the Hammond B3, Widespread Panic bassist Dave Schools and pedal steel player Adam Musick, have poured their hearts, souls and prodigious chops into "Kevn Kinney's Sun Tangled Angel Revival", the band's debut album. Present in spirit are friends and mentors Peter Buck (R.E.M.) and Lenny Kaye (the Patti Smith Group), who have acted as tour guides in Kinney's explorations into the musical past. The album was produced by David Barbe (Drive-By Truckers, Son Volt, Sugar).
The album opens, fittingly, with "(Welcome to The) Sun Tangled Angel Revival," which Kinney says is based on a short story he wrote about a long-distance call between a guy in Milwaukee and a friend whose wanderings have taken him to Rio de Janeiro. "Hang your phone out the window," the homebody requests of his vagabond buddy in the first verse, "I want to hear the city below." Despite its upbeat title, the track resonates with the chilling urgency of Dylan's cautionary anthem, "All Along the Watchtower." From there, the band cranks out hopeful folk rock ("Fly Your Flag High"-and think "freak flag," not Old Glory), bent gospel ("In the Land of Plenty"), stone country (the elegiac narrative "Train Don't Stop at the Millworks Anymore") and southern psychedelia (the instrumental "The North Myrtle Beach Pancake Massacre," "Madman Blues"). But the thematic centerpiece of Kevn Kinney's Sun Tangled Angel Revival is "Everything's So Different Now," a sobering look at the post-9/11 Midwest that's balanced by the affirmation of a glorious jangling chorus. |
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