Robert Connely Farr
Live At Green Auto
(Self-issued)
"We're gonna take ya'll down South," singer/guitarman Robert drawls at the outset. A sweet journey ensues.
He augments beloved heritage with crisp flair and the on-fire passion of a hard-knocks proselytizer. The absence of polish is appreciated; in plainness, honesty proclaims its compelling case. At Robert's elbow is confederate Jay Bundy Johnson, who surely has yet to meet a drum he didn't show who's boss - on into wee hours.
Offered are 11 slices of genuine down-home Blues, wrung from workaday life that can too often be arduous, both physically and emotionally. But moments can be found that make a man keep on keepin' on.
The pace is unhurried. Deliberate. And exquisitely so, in an each-note-exactly-right way that engenders belly-rubbing night spot couples revolving glacially.
It's sad but so: The Industry too often neuters Blues, sanding away rough edges and rendering it antiseptic in grasping covet of refined markets. Just so, Rockabilly was commodified into inocuousness and, much later, Punk was emasculated into New Wave. Interchangeable Industry operatives despoil every music they touch. The bastards create nothing.
Fortunately, they'll never get a hold on Robert and Jay.
Recommended: "Train Train," "Cadillac Problems," "Just Jive," "Gettin' Tired of Gettin' Old," "Jackson Town," "Mississippi Mud," "Train I Ride," "Po' Black Mattie," "Gasoline"
Video: "Train Train" (live) "Gettin' Tired of Gettin' Old"
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