After hearing ‘Hoodoo Garage’ by Bob Urh & The Bare Bones I can conclude that at the end of year I found a serious contender for my list of this year’s releases that truly turn me on. Hoodoo Garage has a rudimentary sound with minimal arrangements. Each track seems to be inspired by another classic. From Robert Johnson to The Velvet Underground and from The Gun Club to The Rolling Stones’ ‘Exile On Mainstream’. Hoodoo Garage ends abruptly after which I realize that Bob Urh has made a special record. www.planettrash.nl
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My appreciation for ‘Hoodoo Garage’ depends on my mood. The vocals are off key, which goes even more for the guitars, and at the barn where they recorded this record a metronome obviously wasn’t present. What this record has in common with The Velvet Underground and Beck’s ‘One Foot In The Grave’ or ‘A Western Harvest By Moonlight’ is a vast knowledge of, and love for, American music history and performances which seem like the musicians are quite uninterested. Which however all of a sudden may turn into a raw intensity sending shivers down one’s spine. Whereas my response at first listening was an ‘ugly face’, ‘Hoodoo Garage’ now is one of my favourite records of this moment.
www.kindamusic.net
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These Americans, on 'Hoodoo Garage', manage to combine the music of The Rolling Stones and Velvet Underground. This record, full of old fashioned r&b and garagerock, charmingly rattles like there's no tomorrow and the song material is diverse and very good. Basically I hope that both Lou Reed and Mick Jagger receive a copy of this, so they can get some inspiration for one last great musical effort.
www.fileunder.nl
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Hoodoo Garage is a record by a extremely talented singer-songwriter, who presents us with all that’s essential in 50 years of rock’n’roll history. Urh is a child of rock’n’roll in all its aspects and ‘Hoodoo Garage’ is the perfect reflection of such. www.goddeau.com
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“Another name that springs to mind is Howe Gelb. Had he spent his childhood in a basement instead of a barn he’d probably sound just like Bob Urh. Or if Lux Interior had spent his formative years in the streets instead of home watching cartoons The Cramps might sound just like The Bare Bones (…) Somebody should send a copy of this to Jon Spencer. And Jack White too (…)â€
EMDS magazine
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“If the ghosts of Brian Jones and John Lee Hooker got together in their little corner of hell with a fifth of mash whiskey this is what it would sound like. Everything that exile on main street should have been. Raw, Shambolic juju-blues that rates with Sioux city pete in the psychodrama department.â€
JEFF DAHL, CARBON 14 magazine [U.S.A]
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“It's not easy to describe his style, it's some kind of weird mix between garage punk, americana with some Velvet Underground, psychobilly, Johnny Thunders, psych spices - psychotic semi-acoustic desert music (…) The world of Bob Urh is very strange - something between imagination, dreams and reality (…) If you can imagine Roky Erickson join Giant Sand with lot of booze and other means, you will know what I'm talking aboutâ€
NO BRAINS zine [Nederland]
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“This band plays stripped down, raw and crude blues punk (for a lack of a better term) with a garage vibe that calls both mid sixties electric blues and more post psych stuff…†THE TROUBLE WITH NORMA magazine [U.S.A]
“cryptic blues†442 EME RUE zine [France]
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“apocalypticly folky†SECRETLY CANADIAN [U.S.A]
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“real rock’n’roll†BILL KELLY: WFMU’s SULTAN OF PSYCHO radio show [U.S.A]
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“an artisanal CD into folk punk trend a la Sky Saxon†GARAGE BAND REVISITED zine [France]
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“(…) Still, the nice, spidery acoustic sound helps convey the dark rural energy these guys ooze (…)†BACK TO COMM magazine [U.S.A]
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“fuckin fantastic sounds!!!†THE MUSCLE CAR SHOUTOUT radio show [France]
Check out the artist's website:
http://www.greencookie.grTrack List:
1. Bad World Revisited
2. Cracker Daddies and Crocodiles
3. Red Skin Man Intro
4. Pretending
5. Gypsy Davey
6. Wonderful
7. The Sky Is Crying
8. Que Milagro
9. Graveyard Shift
10. After the Sun
11. Que Milagro Reprise
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