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Swamp T'ing

by Gary Lucas

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Chilly scenes of winter The price of love comes A' tumbling down Like a play by Pinter You think you know her But she's nowhere around Her words a sharpened dagger One thrust will drop you right Straight to the ground And that's the way That's the way that it is A frosty blue horizon An arctic wind descends To billow and blow Around the corner something Might be a savior But uh you never know And in the distance calling Another lover, man How low can you go? And that's the way That's just the way that it is Come on and dance the tango Come on and join me In this sick pas de deux Come on now choose your partner Give her a tumble Before she tumbles you And if you're feeling frisky Well Ernie Brooks will make you Sadder than blue! And that's the way That's the way that it is

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Somewhere between a steamroller and hellhound train, this record is here to run you over. The term that pops in my teeming word-cloud is drive. Taut and loose at the same time, monolithic, monomaniacal and when Lucas’s guitar bellows and screams, just plain maniacal, this downtown supergroup—recorded live in 2006—is more cohesive and focused than a hundred together-forever bands. So much so you wonder how the musicians could ever stand to be apart. Or how anyone could have left this on the shelf.

Experience has taught me to look askance at live rock albums (and while this may be avant-rock, the emphasis is resolutely on the back of the hyphen). But these sturdy, mostly up-tempo tunes, mostly by Lucas, gain crazy authority amid the sweat and beer. And the driving sound, produced by band member—and as reaffirmed here, B3 virtuoso—Jerry Harrison, gains an overdriven quality that’s perfect. In an imperfect, noisy way.

You may know the origin story of Gary Lucas—which starts with Beefheart (the idol he would eventually serve as co-lead guitarist) and continues through Jeff Buckley (the protege with whom he wrote “Grace” and “Mojo Pin”). If you don't, it’s a good ‘un. You may know Billy Ficca, founding member of Television. Ernie Brooks from the Modern Lovers. Harrison, from the Lovers and Talking Heads. Jason Candler, downtown sax ace. And the gifted Joe Hendel on ‘bone. But if you were curious about a through-line from “Sing Sing Sing” to “Third Stone from the Sun” to “20th Century Schizoid Man”—with stops for the Velvets, 
Wagner, Zappa, the Allmans, Sun Ra, Chet Atkins and Bukka White—climb abroad. 

Turns out, it’s not this album that was lost. It was us.
 
—Robert Duncan

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released June 3, 2022

Recorded Live at the Bowery Poetry Club NYC for the CMJ 11/4/2006

Gary Lucas – guitars, vocals
Jerry Harrison – keyboards, vocals
Ernie Brooks – bass, background vocals
Billy Ficca – drums
Jason Candler – saxophone, background vocals
Joe Hendel – trombone, background vocals
Jerry Harrison and Eric Thorngren – mixing engineer
Jerry Roche – producer

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Dot Time Records is a jazz, blues, and world music label. Launched in 2012, Dot Time Records releases feature exciting virtuoso artists, both established and newly discovered from around the globe. The soul of Dot Time Records can be found in the creativity, artistry, passion and energy of these artists and musicians. ... more

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