Album review: Blitzen Trapper, American Goldwing
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This is straightforward Americana lying somewhere between Stephen Stills and the Greatful Dead, coupled with boisterous, muscled-up roots rock. Songs like Street Fighting Sun and Your Crying Eyes offer up blistering blues mayhem and lead guitarist Erik Menteer's Nels Cline-y, slick-but-sloppy shreddage filling out any open space.
Slow burners Taking It Easy Too Long, Love the Way You Walk Away, Girl in a Coat, and Astronaut has frontman Earley shovelling peculiar metaphors into a pit of past failures and ex-lovers. The closer, Stranger in a Strange Land could pass for a John Prine song, both vocally and instrumentally.
Blitzen Trapper
American Goldwing
Ode
