Tuesday, October 9, 2012

King Dude's Burning Daylight

I've got a review of the very dark country blues of King Dude up today at Dusted, which I liked, kind of...(I'm not sure you can tell from the review.)

King Dude
Burning Daylight
Dais

T.J. Cowgill sings like an undertaker, his baritone hollowed out, echoing like it’s in a well and fraying into stutters at the very low-end. His “whoa-oh-oh” sounds more like a moan of suffering than an element of melody. Burning Daylight, the third full-length attributed to his goth country alter ego King Dude, raises ghosts and hell in equal parts, twisting the proprietries of country blues into surreal pacts with darkness

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Also watched the pilot episode of Nashville last night...really liked it a lot...may have to check out the Civil Wars finally, on the strength of the song at the closing credits. (Civil Wars wrote it; Clare Bowen and Sam Palladio are shown here performing it.)

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