So I picked up that new Hadacol CD on the recommendations of several around
here who are often to be much trusted, and I'm pretty much impressed.
This is pretty straightahead alt.country in the sense most people mean it
most of the time whatever that is, played and sung pretty well. As maybe
befits an album produced by the Skeleton's Lou Whitney, the sound crosses
lines in a sort of encyclopedia of styles liked around here. The sound
influences are fairly obvious--Steve Earle (but of course; nice duo with
Cisco)..John Prine, Alejandro Escovedo, somea Green on Red I think, some
rockabilly, even post-Like a Rolling Stone style La Bamba changes...it all
comes together pretty effectively, though it would be hard to say something
clearly their own has turned up in the process.
Now I'm wondering--what were these guys playing befoire. I understand is a
successor band to one some of our members from the Missouri/Kansas
metroplex area referred to now and then--Big Iron.
(Guess they dropped that name cause Heavay Metal is one thing they're
not, and they're not on the Old 97s first label either!) So what'd that
ol' band sound like--and is any part of that some part of this?
Barry M.
(Gotta use the last initial since I noticved another Barry on the premises
today!)
