 The
Lucky Stars | Hollywood and Western
an emily blunt music review
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It! Bluntly
speaking? I truly
got lucky with this musical find - and figured I'd share. The Lucky Stars are
a throwback to the real musicians of yesteryear who'd gather at some sawdust gin
soaked hootenanny to get the folks up and dancin'. You half expect to be transported
to roadside bars strewn across some film noirish John Garfield-syled mid-America
as the notes titillate the mind's eye. Even the title"Hollywood and Western"
has a stylised inner-thought running about...either that or that's the corner
where you'll find their recording studio. I prefer to create a more fantastical
mini-bio for the clever artwork and title.
I was at The Gene Autry Museum
- checking out the Sergio Leone exhibit - when I had to have me some cowboy music.
I was finding the "usual" fare; whiny or extra modern Nashville fixins'
- yech. But, I'm picky. I want Buck Owens style, with a hint of Cliff Edwards
and bit of The Band ensemble-ish tunes. I come from Canadian hillbillies and Hungarian
gypsy stock - 'nough said? And perhaps, now, you'll get why I usually leave the
music reviews to the more in-stream salmon in the cliche here at BluntReview.com.
Here
there's a heapin' helpin' of edible audio with a midnight special plate of pure
delectable note transmissions. The first track sold me. It's "Everybody's
Fool," and it's roaring with multi - instruments that know how to play nicely
together aside near-yodel vocals by Sage Guyton . Then there's a for-giggles-and-fun
song on track 3, "Look What The Cat Dragged In" - have we not all been
there...track 7 is a kind of "honest guy's guy ditty called ,"All Shapes
and Sizes." The yarn's lyrics, while sweet and jovial, are about as subtle
as a guy wearing 1/2 a quart of Aqua Velva in a two-person elevator. Hilarious!
And then there's track 8, "White Lie Blues," which slows us down and
serves up vocals which are eerie perfectly old-fashioned by J.W.; he sounds like
he's crooning over a cowboys' make-shift campfire in an open range post fulfilling
a run across the plains. Yum. I
rechecked the credits looking for familiar hall-o-famer scribes of the catchy
lyrics and note combos...nope these are originals by these yet-to-be-really discovered
talents; 'ceptin for track 9, "Tennessee Tango" - ironically not my
favorite of the gents undertakings.
This is simply a must for parlayers
of honky-tonk rockabilly beats. The songs wail with bass fiddles, accordions,
Bigsby steel guitar and general musical mayhem - the good kind. The passion for
the genre-of-music is immediately apparent in the group made up of, Chris "Whitey"
Anderson, Sage Guyton, Brent " Mooney" Harding, Charlie Paddock and
J.W. aka Jeremy Wakefield; they ooze infectious rhythms as a preschool child might
sticky up their surroundings. Okay, bad analogy - but you get my drift - they
get under the skin even long after the music's stopped.
The group plays
live around the greater LA area and they're worth the effort to catch - when's
the last time you saw six of seven actually talented folks crooning on a stage,
egos aside, and people watchin' them unable to stay sedated and seated? Right
- me neither! Band info
etc here->
Tracks: (you
can test-a-hear at Amazon too) 1.
Everybody's Fool Listen
2. Chisel To My Heart Listen
3. Look What The
Cat Dragged In Listen
4. Hot Potato Listen
5. Get Off Your High Horse
Listen
6. A Fella Named Jack
7. All Shapes And Sizes
8. White Lie
Blues
9. Tennessee Tango
10. Been Betrayed Blues
11. Sugar Mama
12.
Honky Tonk Bound
Their latest cd Stay Out Late
With The Lucky Stars is equally as enchanting and only available via
their site-> |
