Leicesterbangs review
Creech Holler - With Signs Following (Self Released)
If you were looking for the missing link between the hoedown and the black mass then look no further.
Electrification of old folk songs rarely comes off, and half of this album is from 'traditional' sources; but panic ye not because Creech Holler are more the inbred country cousins of The Immortal Lee County Killers than they are the grandsons of Fairport Convention. That said 'The Ballad of Mathie Groves' is a disinterment of the very same 'Matty Groves', only this time with webbed hands and six toes. What we have here is full-on fuzzed-up slide guitar, frenzied and insistent drumming (complete with footstomps), and an eerie rasping vocal sunk so low in the mix that it sounds like wind filtered through the branches of dying trees. Their characters, such as 'Lester Ballard' roam the hills by night, preach 'The Gospel of Judas' and are justly visited with a 'Plague of Frogs' in a drunken, dirty and dangerous world where this demented hillbilly blues is what they cut loose to on a typical East Tennessee Saturday night.
--Leicesterbangs
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