I've been listening to the Damnations record as well and I can't really
recommend it. The noticeably slicker-sounding "Unholy Train" is a great
song but I think too many of the others are flat-out boring. They sort of
sound like the Indigo Girls with inferior songs and a banjo.
Just my opinion,
Slonedog
-----Original Message-----
From: Don Yates
To: passenger side
Sent: 3/3/99 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: Damnations TX vs tired UT sounds
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Matt Benz wrote:
> Anyway, I love the record, but am surprised to hear the tag team of
> Yates and Weiss claim this stands out from the UT "genre". I hear
plenty
> of overt UT influence on this album. Strains of New Madrid lurk in the
> banjo strains, etc... Also, do you really think that musically this
> album stands out?
Oops, forgot to reply to this. I can't speak for Neal, but for me
anyway,
it stands out simply because it's so much better than yer average
run-of-the-mill alt-country album -- quality songs performed well, with
some of the most deliciously soulful singing that I've heard from an
alt-country act in quite some time.--don
