Knoxville Girls

knoxville girls

Track Listings
1. Sixty-Five Days Ago
2. I Feel Better All Over
3. Soda Pop Girl
4. Have You Ever
5. Two Time Girl
6. Kung Pow Chicken Scratch
7. NYC Briefcase Blues
8. Warm and Tender Love
9. I Had a Dream
10. He Stopped Loving Her Today
11. One Sided Love
12. Armadillo Roadkill Blues
13. Truck Drivin' Man
14. Low Cut Apron / Sugar Fix

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Knoxville Girls
Knoxville Girls
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • KNOXVILLE GIRLS !
 Knoxville Girls
Knoxville Girls
Manufacturer: In the Red Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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  1. In a Paper Suit

ASIN: B00000K3HU
Release Date: 1999-09-14

Tracks:

  1. Sixty-Five Days Ago
  2. I Feel Better All Over
  3. Soda Pop Girl
  4. Have You Ever
  5. Two Time Girl
  6. Kung Pow Chicken Scratch
  7. NYC Briefcase Blues
  8. Warm and Tender Love
  9. I Had a Dream
  10. He Stopped Loving Her Today
  11. One Sided Love
  12. Armadillo Roadkill Blues
  13. Truck Drivin' Man
  14. Low Cut Apron / Sugar Fix

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars KNOXVILLE GIRLS !.......2000-06-02

This record is much more than a curiosity from some underground rock'n'roll supergroup, although this quintet's prominent pedigree casts a long shadow: Jerry Teel (Honeymoon Killers, Boss Hog, Chrome Cranks) on guitar and vocals; his long-time partner-in-musical crime Bob Bert (also Cranks, Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore) on the drums; Congo Norvelle guitarist Jack Martin on slide duty; a relative unknown named Barry London on the farfisa organ; and rounding out the band, the most notorious gun of them all: Kid Congo Powers (Gun Club, Cramps, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Congo Norvelle) adding his trademark fuzz and other guitar atmospherics.

About half covers and half originally penned numbers, The Knoxville Girls ride out of the West in revved-up epic wonder, and eventually collapse in a storm of white-lit feedback 14 songs further East. The opener "65 Days Ago" is a bold, dusty, romantic cowboy instro, with a galloping rythm section and flashes of mournful slide guitar whizzin' by. The spirit of Jeffery Lee Pierce channeled from the Great Beyond to collaborate on a Spaghetti Western filmscore with Ennio Morricone. From there, a trot through the lonesome praries of solid country honk (a whooping cover of the Kenny Rogers-penned "I Feel Better All Over") and weepy country sorrow (a take of Charlie Feather's lement, "Have You Ever?") On these tracks, Jerry Teel's 'Bama drawl lends authencitiy to the work, while the triple guitar threat of Congo, Martin, and Teel is restrained by the "less is more" wisdom of veteran musicians. Our steed then picks up speed, racing through the Stonesy gutter rock of "Two Time Girl", with Barry Landon adding junky farfisa fills to give the entire piece a faint Sam the Sham/ Mysterians flavour.

Although the least famous and seasoned of the group, Landon is a gem throughout the LP, alternately doing ? and the Mysterians-derived organ fills and coming off like Billy Preston the very next. "Kung Pow Chicken Scratch" is Barry's showcase- a nightmarish Booker T and the MG's inspired piece that floats over a cloud of static No Wave guitar noise. The LP's shining moment is the Girls' sizzling remake of Bobby Henderson's "Warm and Tender Love," with the most stylishly nasty Lou Reed-inspired guitar dueling in recent memory. The Girls also manage the best faux Dylan song since Mouse and the Traps' "Public Execution" - "NYC Briefcase Blues" is a tune with an unmistakable Blonde On Blonde heritage and a witty anti-yuppification temperament:

"New York City, things got rough- briefcases everywhere, I think I had enough..."

Side two opens with a gothic blues version of Ray Charles' "I Had A Dream" that sways heavily into the direction of Congo's former work in the Bad Seeds (complete with Kid's barrotone backing vocals). Next, a haunting run through George Jones' bittersweet "He Stopped Loving Her Today", which has to be one of THE saddest songs ever penned. The original "Armadillo Roadkill Blues" has a field-recording vibe, as if it was captured in some decrepid East Texas shotgun shack and not in NYC's famed Funhouse Studios. Things wrap up with the hungry Mr.Teel trying to satisfy several appetites at once on "Low Cut Apron". A chugging "talking-blues" piece with slowly accelerating rythm and harmonica squalk that dissolves when the other Girls suddenly lunge full force into a droning, fuzzed out nod to the Velvets known as "Sugar Fix"- finally managing to drive the crazed horse right off the edge into the abyss.

The Knoxville Girls have created a masterpiece by distorting their common outside influences and by copping from the best of their own past artistic triumphs. This record journeys through the American musical folk psyche - a No Wave concoction of country western, r&b, soul, and garage rock'n'roll. On some songs, The Girls twist together the thin lines that divide these styles, on others, they keep things musically kosher. Most importantly, unlike a lot of contemporaries toying with C&W, the Girls never betray Hank W. and George J. by giving the material an ironic treatment.

Lyrically, it's an album of tried and true folk contradictions: Joy and heartbreak. Lower East-Side Hipsters and rural Southern Bluesmen. Honky tonk and dirty soul. Tight-wound sex and love left unrequitted. Juke joints and neon dive bars. The Country Boy headin' to the Big City looking for the American Dream, tryin' to make it rich. He never does - but decides to stay there anyhow. Possibly the best record put out last year.
In a Paper Suit
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • absolutely timeless rock n' roll
  • WOW!!!
 In a Paper Suit
Knoxville Girls
Manufacturer: In the Red Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Indie RockIndie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
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  1. Knoxville Girls

ASIN: B0000589D2
Release Date: 2001-03-13

Tracks:

  1. Any Reason To Celebrate
  2. (Any Other) Loving Cup
  3. Oh Baby, What You Gonna Do Now?
  4. Sophisticated Boom Boiom
  5. In A Paper Suit
  6. Baby Wedding Bell Blues
  7. That's Alright With Me
  8. 'Neath A Cold Gray Tomb Of Stone
  9. 50 Feet High, 50 Feet Down
  10. One Last Thing
  11. Butcher Knife
  12. Drop Dead Gorgeous
  13. My New Dinner
  14. By The Lonesome River
  15. 5:28

Album Description

The members of this band have collectively been in The Cramps, Gun Club, Nick Cave's Bad Seeds and Sonic Youth. The Knoxville Girls are not even girls. They lay down a raw blend of country/western, soul, rockabilly and blues. They've been described as 'no wave country' and a cross between Charlie Feathers and The Velvets. Standard jewel case. 2000 release.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars absolutely timeless rock n' roll.......2001-06-27

Imagine a cross between "Exile" era Stones and'66 era Dylan as filtered through the swampy-ness of the early Cramps or Gun Club and you can begin to imagine the sound these five guys (there are no girls) cook up. Country, rockabilly, and blues are churned out of their meat grinder of rock all at the same time. As anybody who's seen them live can attest, Bob Bert is the coolest drummer in rock. Why more bands can't be this good I just don't know.

5 out of 5 stars WOW!!!.......2001-05-24

Wow. Let me just start by saying that. Once again, Knoxville Girls have impressed me. In fact, I think it's safe to say their second studio album, In A Paper Suit, has captured my undivided attention. I actually have a funny story about this album. Two weeks ago I had to rent a car to get to DC. It had a CD player in it, so before I even pulled out of the Budget Rent-a-Car lot, I popped In a Paper Suit into the player. One hundred and fifty miles later I was still listening to it, as the stereo was on the fritz and wouldn't eject the disc. The mark of a truly great record is that even after twelve consecutive, non-stop listens, you still love it and wouldn't mind hearing it again. One of the things that originally attracted me to Knoxville Girls, and is only reinforced here, is their ability to reinvent country music, transcending a genre that I normally find relatively unappealing. Due in large part to the band members' disparate backgrounds (coming from such bands as Pussy Galore, Chrome Cranks, Sonic Youth, Gun Club, The Cramps and many others), they pull their influences from punk, rockabilly, Downtown art music and doo-wop as easily as they draw from country. In their cover of "'Neath a Cold Gray Tomb of Stone", we hear more than just Hank Williams -- we hear elements of Nick Cave, Velvet Underground and a weirdness that belongs to the Knoxville Girls alone. Throughout the album, Jack Martin's guitar is gripping, flawless and twangy to the bone. Jerry Teel's vocals alternate between Big Bopperism, as on "Sophisticated Boom Boom", classic country ("50 Feet High, 50 Feet Down") and just plain weird ("Drop Dead Gorgeous"). The title track, "In A Paper Suit", is the epitome of what Knoxville Girls can do; the keyboards and Kid Congo's artful guitar create jangly swirls and accents, pulling your attention away and the refocusing it on the simple melodic theme at the center of the song. I could just listen to this album all day. Oh, wait -- I already have.

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