Review

Consider the following. The day Will Oldham dropped the ‘Palace’ moniker, the day Bill Callahan fell in love, the demise of both Arab Strap and Guided By Voices and the day Cat Power wised up. Great artists, all missing indefinitely. Dark days indeed.

Georgia’s Horse will remind you of the halcyon days of late-Nineties Americana. The music is barely there, an oblique chord chiming awkwardly from a battered electric guitar, a simple piano melody hammered on the blackest of keys, a gently strummed acoustic backed by subtle strings, straining to be heard above the beauty and fragility of Teresa Maldonado’s voice. Dig out your copies of Moonpix, Red Apple Falls and Lost Blues to re-affirm that the notions of maturity and change are tainted concepts in the world of great music. The Mammoth Sessions is a thing of startling grace. Don’t ever change! Kenny Murdock

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DOWNLOAD: ‘SNAKE & SPARROW’, ‘BARON SAMEDI’.
FOR FANS OF: CAT POWER, SMOG, COWBOY JUNKIES.

Posted on: June 4, 2009