Satan’s favorite country rock band’s EP begins with a take on Gallows Pole, the song made famous by Led Zeppelin. But unlike Plant and Page, who sanitized the song into one about how the doomed man was such a stud that all the girls wanted to rescue him despite his crimes, Blackwater Jukebox make a grimy, rough bounce and the end is never in doubt: This guy’s gonna die. On the very next cut, That Voodoo Shit, the album takes a left turn at breakbeat and does a dusty rap. Kind of. It’s something that sounds like Junior Senior on brown acid.
Then there’s the pirate song, below, “Heave Away.” I love this song.
And it keeps going like that. Is this really an EP, or is just a showcase for Geordie McElroy, a self-proclaimed “DJ and folk archivist turned banjo-and-drum-machine-slinging troubadour?”
Don’t know, don’t care. It’s fun and it’s awesome and it’s free.
Get it free here at Bandcamp.
Heave Away (aka The Scrimshaw Blues)
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