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Also this issue: Show Me the Monkeys Uhuru Furniture Benefit Art Auction Cards by Howard Watson |
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December 12-18, 2002
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Born in the heart of Texas, Denton’s Slobberbone is heir to the legacy of cowpunks True Believers and Jason & the Scorchers, with a ragged rock sound that owes as much to Mick Taylor-era Stones as Gram Parsons. While the recent ascendancy of alt-country garnered them attention, their latest, Slippage (New West), leans heavily in the other direction, with crisp, open production by Don Smith (Cracker, Tom Petty) that accents the classic aspects of Slobberbone’s rock. The beer-soaked paeans to fractured love (the incendiary “Write Me Off”), broken dreams (“Butchers”) and everyday anomie (“Down Town Again”), bear more than a hint of The Replacements’ Paul Westerberg, and Brent Best has a similarly supple, incisive way of expressing each day’s struggle and the will to persevere.
Thu., Dec. 12, 9 p.m., $8, with Centro-matic and Naked Omaha, The Fire, 412 W Girard Ave., 267-671-9298.
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