Genre: Blues
Rate: 256 kbps CBR / 44100
Time: 00:51:44
Size: 94,66 MB
Review by Stewart Mason
Preacher Boy might be a young white boy singing the blues, but think Tom Waits and Captain Beefheart more than Led Zeppelin and Bad Company, and throw in some Townes Van Zandt and Gillian Welch as well. For his fifth album, Preacher Boy (known to his mother by the decidedly less bluesy moniker Christopher Watkins) for the first time performs in a strictly solo and acoustic setting: just his agreeably smoky voice and vintage National slide guitar. Waits and Beefheart come immediately to mind because of Watkins' fearlessness when it comes to bending melodies to suit his own whim, not to mention the husky low register of his singing voice. But he's not really out to warp or subvert the blues, as shown by reverential but idiosyncratic readings of standards like Son House's "Death Letter" and Skip James' "Nehemiah James." Watkins understands that the idea is not to mimic one's influences, but to put them in the service of something new. That "old wine in a new bottle" context makes Demanding to Be Next Preacher Boy's best album yet.
Tracklist:
01 - A Little Better When It Rains 03:59
02 - Whistleman 04:52
03 - Nehemiah James 04:41
04 - Jackson Street 04:33
05 - Comin' Up Aces 05:01
06 - Rock Skipper 03:26
07 - One-Way Turnstile 03:11
08 - Cemetery Stout 03:56
09 - Death Letter 04:16
10 - Ninety-Nine Bottles 03:40
11 - Umbrella 03:12
12 - Change 03:14
13 - My Gold Canoe 03:43
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