Monday, January 25, 2010

Jace Everett

Add Date: January 26

Artist: Jace Everett

Album: Red Revelations

Label: Weston Boys

Genre: Rock/Alt-country

Comments: Old-school country music meets bluesy, dive-bar rock, and it's amazing. Jace Everett is probably best known for his song "Bad Things", which is the theme song to HBO's True Blood, a show which is essentially about southern vampires (pardon the brief and lacking description)-and the song choice is entirely appropriate. Red Revelations, Everett's newest album (featuring his most-famous number as a track 12 bonus), is exemplary of the excellent 'southern-gothic' style (if you can apply a literary term to music)--it's brooding, but with the right amount of twang. The album is dark without being annoyingly in your face (it's hardly depressing), gritty yet slick, plus Everett has a fabulous crooning voice (overall, it's a pretty sexy album). Ridiculously enjoyable. Start with tracks 1, 2, 7, and 12.
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1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Excellent. One of my favorites! Though I dig track three, "More to Life," the most, I think. Chuck Prophet produced part of this record, his fans might note.

January 27, 2010 11:03 PM

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