Wednesday, September 28, 2016

The Geraldine Fibbers "what part of get thee gone don't you understand? "

I have a weird soft spot for '70s and early '80s country music.  As a child my parents both listened to the stuff and for many consecutive summers we attended clam bakes and events at a Rod and Gun Club in Franklinville,NY.  My parents and their friends would drink, eat and drink while their kids and my siblings would hunt for crayfish, skip rocks, play hide and seek and generally just wander around the countryside.  At night they would move their drinking into the club's bar and give us quarters to play the jukebox.  The lot of us kids would twirl and dance to George Jones, Eddie Rabbit and Charley Pride.  I've since gone in to buy those nostalgic CDs but before I did I was turned onto this #thegeraldinefibbers disc.  A co-worker had been playing this in the print shop where we worked.  They cover a bunch of those country standards I had loved as a kid in a loving but avant-garde style.  Weird wobbly musical saws and androgynous vocals brought the songs back to my attention.  I caught this band perform at the Mohawk Place in the late '90s and shortly after bought the rest of their epic and varied discography.

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