Author: Kelly Joe Phelps

Brand: WACR2

PartNumber: 10633

Release Date: 14-01-2008

Details: Amazon.ca With a name like that, Kelly Joe Phelps was always pretty unlikely to end up in a Europop disco group; and, sure enough, Slingshot Professionals is an album of songs that might have been conceived as a soundtrack by which to visit unspeakable torment on lost canoeists. On perusing the sleeve credits, it is almost a disappointment to discover that this album was recorded in something as prosaic as a studio; the listener will imagine, as Phelps doubtless did himself, a group of musicians gathered on a lonely porch, somewhere out in the swamp. The songs on Slightshot Professionals proceed at a languid pace but are prevented from collapse by the taut playing of a group that includes legendary guitarist Bill Frisell. This is country, old country, of the sort also practised in these times only by Sixteen Horsepower and Chris Whitley. Phelps shares with both of these a love for desolate, careworn vocals and guitars that wail like abandoned dogs, but he brings to this age-old idea the zest and sparkle of the true believer. Slingshot Professionals is fundamentalist country. --Andrew Mueller

UPC: 014431063329

EAN: 0014431063329

Model: 10633

Languages: English

Binding: audioCD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood