Label: Jet Set Records
Category: Music
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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 604978006721
EAN: 0604978006721
ASIN: B0000D8L3N
Release Date: 2004-02-24
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Artist: Firewater
Label: Jet Set Records Category: Music Average customer rating:
Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 604978006721 EAN: 0604978006721 ASIN: B0000D8L3N Release Date: 2004-02-24 |
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For their fifth album, Brooklyn's Firewater has brought forth a set of covers. Led by bass player and vocalist Tod A, he provides accompanying commentary on why he was drawn to each of the eleven tunes. Except for one, all of the songs are united, in their original form, by a potent emotional voice. This allows Tod's ragged baritone plenty of room to punch and kick against the solid rough-hewn rhythmic underpinnings. The aforementioned exception is Sonny Bono's "The Beat Goes On," which, as written, eschewed depth of character for slight but bright lyrical subservience. Appropriately, Tod was attracted to this number because of its bass line, one of the first he ever learned. Album highpoints include a venomous take on the Beatles "Hey Bulldog" which amp things up at the midpoint, and a dreamy version of Robyn Hitchcock's "I Often Dream of Trains" which brings the disc to a quiet close. --<I>David Greenberger</I>Customer Reviews:
Firewater brings back the dark mood on this set of covers.......2004-02-28
The album begins with the slowly paced Sonny and Cher cover "The Beat Goes On," featuring Britta Phillips in a duet with the distinctive voice of Tod A, making for an excellent contrast in sound. It is followed by the first of two songs written by Lee Hazelwood, "This Town," featuring an excellent guitar solo from Oren Kaplan. Things really pick up with their reworking of Tom Waits' "Diamonds and Gold," a slightly sunnier song featuring some nice marimba and violin parts.
The cover of Cash's masterpiece "Folsom Prison Blues" comes next. It's amazing how the addition of some minor bass arpeggios and guitar chords can make a song sound so dark and evil. Tod's voice sounds great on this track. What follows is the most upbeat and cheery song on the album, the instrumental cover of Lyn Taitt and the Comets' "Storm Warning." It's reminiscent of their Ponzi suite instrumentals, featuring excellent horn work from Ori Kaplan.
The Beatles' "Hey Bulldog" is next, which is simply an excellent track in every way. Along with the next track, "Some Velvet Morning," it represents the strongest portion of the album. "Some Velvet Morning" is a trippy dirge remake of the Lee Hazelwood/Nancy Sinatra original, featuring Britta Phillips for the second time on the album. It's fantastic. The next song is pure silliness, as they felt the need to cover the old favorite "This Little Light of Mine" that people always force little kids to sing in elementary school music classes. It's just stupid fun, but still a well structured and performed song.
Next comes their "Paint it Black" cover, the sole reason (outside of it being a new Firewater album) I picked this disc up. It's a beautiful, slow paced rendition tinged with a middle eastern feel (brought to head by sitar and tabla lines) that picks up the tempo 4 minutes in. Excellent. The final two songs are also great works on their own, with "I Often Dream of Trains" being specifically powerful.
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