Spencer Kilpatrick – Rhonda EP
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| Spencer Kilpatrick - Rhonda EP |
Release Date: Out Now
Regular readers of this little
blog will know that US band Failure Machine have found a special place in my
heart and my T-Shirt drawer. Apart from being some of the nicest guys I’ve
never met, they are also hugely adept and rocking out with soul which is a rare
thing these days. So, being given the opportunity to get an early listen of the
new solo material of FM main man Spencer Kilpatrick was too good to pass up. These
five tunes are bundled together under the title ‘Rhonda’ and open up with ‘San
Jose’, a bluesy, rattling good tune played out on acoustic guitar with some
drunken horns in the background as Kilpatrick gives a Big Lebowski style chat
up line to an old flame. On ‘Two Long Nights’ the blues are back with a more
midnight hour vibe as the whisky smell and smoke seeps through every note and
that low horn blows in the corner to give this a New Orleans funereal vibe.
The four count in to ‘Running
Back’ is almost reticent as Kilpatrick’s heartbreak is there for everyone to
hear with nothing but the rich, rasping, Joe Cocker-esque voice with a deep
south twang played out with a simple guitar strum and tambourine tap. ‘Precious,
Precious’ is the missing track from the Blues Brothers soundtrack as the rich horns
beef out some bottleneck guitar and the woozy stagger home from a late night
bar suddenly has a soundtrack. Final track ‘Plastic Jesus’ is a Ray LaMontagne
strum played out sat on the ledge of a broken window looking out at lazy trees
swaying in time to the chords that could be a modern blues classic given time.
The scariest and most impressive thing about this humble EP is that these are
songs Kilpatrick wrote in another lifetime before Failure Machine even existed.
That means there is more, so much more, still to come and I can’t wait for it.
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