Whine de Lune

whine de lune

Editorial Reviews
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Like a hillbilly genie slithering her way through a jukebox of Delta blues and backwoods country, Melissa Swingle puts Chapel Hill, North Carolina's Trailer Bride on her back and carries Whine de Lune, the band's third effort. Swingle's voice is a confident, slurring drawl, and her multi-instrumental arrangements (banjo, mandolin, harmonica, even a saw) are tightly wound around hook-filled pop, slow acoustic waltzes, and bold hints of gospel. With a playful seriousness, Swingle spins tale after Deep South tale of railroads, after-hours dancers, and the simplest of pleasures. And just as she slithers her way back into the bottle, you're bellying up and asking for another shot. --Scott Holter

Product Description
On "Whine De Lune", Trailer Bride have perfected their spooky, stompy, swampy country; the kind of sound that could only come out of North Carolina. With her high-lonesome warble, and trademark slide-guitar mojo, Melissa Swingle sings sweet songs of love, but also delivers the goods to satisfy your sociopath buddies down in the Bloodshot bunker. This time around they add some fresh sounding psychedelic era guitar fuzz, clunky banjos and the requisite creepy saw playing.

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Whine de Lune
Whine de Lune
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Simply Amazing
  • Spooky alternative country - way off the mainstream
  • Great alt-country
  • Singer Songwriter= great. Rest of band= lousy
  • Singer Songwriter= great. Rest of band= lousy
 Whine de Lune
Trailer Bride
Manufacturer: Bloodshot Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000JPD4
Release Date: 1999-09-07

Tracks:

  1. Work On The Railroad
  2. Too Many Snakes
  3. Crazy Love
  4. Felt Like A Sin
  5. Clermont Hotel
  6. A Song For Emily
  7. Left-Hand Cigarette Blues
  8. Dirt Nap
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  11. Pasture

Amazon.com

Like a hillbilly genie slithering her way through a jukebox of Delta blues and backwoods country, Melissa Swingle puts Chapel Hill, North Carolina's Trailer Bride on her back and carries Whine de Lune, the band's third effort. Swingle's voice is a confident, slurring drawl, and her multi-instrumental arrangements (banjo, mandolin, harmonica, even a saw) are tightly wound around hook-filled pop, slow acoustic waltzes, and bold hints of gospel. With a playful seriousness, Swingle spins tale after Deep South tale of railroads, after-hours dancers, and the simplest of pleasures. And just as she slithers her way back into the bottle, you're bellying up and asking for another shot. --Scott Holter

Album Description

On "Whine De Lune", Trailer Bride have perfected their spooky, stompy, swampy country; the kind of sound that could only come out of North Carolina. With her high-lonesome warble, and trademark slide-guitar mojo, Melissa Swingle sings sweet songs of love, but also delivers the goods to satisfy your sociopath buddies down in the Bloodshot bunker. This time around they add some fresh sounding psychedelic era guitar fuzz, clunky banjos and the requisite creepy saw playing.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Simply Amazing.......2003-09-02

I will not bore you with a lot of details, rather let me simply say this:

I own over 10,000 cd's and 1,500 vinyl records. Whine De Lune was my favorite release of 1999 (yes, I think it was the best record released that year).

Trailer Bride's sound is truly unique. I don't think it could be duplicated, but if you wanted to try, do this. In a blender add one scoop Southern Culture on the Skids, one scoop Velvet Underground, one scoop trailer trash and one scoop woman scorned. Blend well, pour and enjoy.

I have seen Trailer Bride and they are awesome.

Rock on Trailer Bride.

5 out of 5 stars Spooky alternative country - way off the mainstream.......2002-07-30

Trailer Bride's sound is described (on their record company website) as spooky, stompy, swampy country of the kind of sound that could only come out of North Carolina. I'm not going to argue with that.

Lead singer Melissa Swingle (who also wrote all the songs) has a very distinctive warbling style. She sings love songs, but there are also songs about snakes and strippers, not exactly your everyday subjects for songs. There have been songs about such matters before - Charley Pride began his career with a song called The snakes crawl at night, while Kenny Rogers did a great song about a stripper (Scarlet fever) on his We've got tonight album, and there are probably others - so there are precedents.

Although this band comes in the category of alt-country, it isn't even like (say) Neko Case or Kelly Hogan's Pine Valley Cosmonauts. Their music, while different from the mainstream, can at least be compared to it, as there are some similarities. This band is not like anything I've ever heard before. Reading the other reviews, it seems to be a universal opinion.

So, you either buy blind as I did (something I usually get away with, because of my eclectic tastes), or you hear enough of their music to be sure this is what you want.

5 out of 5 stars Great alt-country.......2002-03-06

My husband says TB sounds like the house band for some country graveyard, and he's got a point. These songs are haunting combos of country, bluegrass and something not altogether defineable. Reminds me a bit of the Mekons, a little of early rootsy bands like the Tarbox Ramblers and a little of nothing else I've ever heard. Definitely worth a listen.

3 out of 5 stars Singer Songwriter= great. Rest of band= lousy.......2001-07-07

The singing and songwriting are great. Very unique without consciously trying to be "different". A genuine unique voice. However!!, this "band" is not even passable. They sound as (in) competent as kidswhen they are first learning their instruments at say 12 -13 years old. Truly, it is unfortunate, the songs are great and I believe this band could be succesful, but the bass licks and drumming in particular are atrocious. mot even in time , there is simply no coherence or "pop" when they need it. no consistency. they sound like they just picked up instruments to be in a band. sad for a very promising lead singer/songwriter..get a REAL band!!

3 out of 5 stars Singer Songwriter= great. Rest of band= lousy.......2001-07-07

The singing and songwriting are great. Very unique without consciously trying to be "different". A genuine unique voice. However!!, this "band" is not even passable. They sound as (in) competent as kids when they are first learning their instruments at say 12 -13 years old. Truly, it is unfortunate, the songs are great and I believe this band could be succesful, but the bass licks and drumming in particular are atrocious. they are not even in time , there is simply no coherence or "pop" when they need it. no consistency. they sound like they just picked up instruments to be in a band... sad for a very promising lead singer/songwriter..get a REAL band!!

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