LABEL: New West Records
CAT NO: NW5560LP
BARCODE: 0607396556014
Tracklisting:
1. Fishbelly 86 Onions (06:02)
2. Workhorse (05:44)
3. 1st vs. 2nd (05:58)
4. Half-Tongue (04:35)
5. Diamond (06:09)
6. Harvest Feast (10:45)
7. HJTC (05:48)
8. Rob’s Dream (06:51)
ALL THEM WITCHES – ATW
2LP – Limited Edition Tan with Blue, Red & Purple Splatter Vinyl
(Housed in a Gatefold Sleeve)
The Tennessee outfit, who had garnered much praise for their first two albums, retreated to a cabin on the outskirts of a town in their home state called Pigeon Forge – home of Dolly Parton’s Appalachian-themed Dollywood – to work on their third. They emerged five days later with Dying Surfer Meets His Maker, their first for New West Records, a label known for its Americana and what pigeon-holers call alt-country releases.It continues down the psychedelic path of its predecessor Lightning At The Door (El Centro is an eight-and-a-half-minute White Manna-style freakout), while keeping some of the steamy, swampy blues rock of their debut Our Mother Electricity (Dirt Preachers is a stomper), but it is what they have added that makes this album so good: a cinematic outlook which serves as a celebration of the large landscape of the US as songs flow into one another like the changing view from a car window; and a vulnerability, world-weariness and melancholy which gives the album real depth and substance.
See below for tracklisting…