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Muruch, CD Review >>
The Wilders' Someone's Got To Pay will be released on April 15th. I don't know if the tax day pun was intentional. The music on the album is made of such diverse ingredients that the band could just as easily share a stage with barnburners like Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles and nostalgic pop acts like She & Him as with demented revivalists The Felice Brothers.
"Wild Old Nory" roars in on a punked up Ozark wave of quaking Dobro and lap steel chased by demonic fiddle. The traditional "Broken Down Gambler" follows with a much more conventional yet still hyperactive fiddle and mandolin arrangement. The honky tonk wailer "My Final Plea" sounds like Kentucky Headhunters covering Jerry Lee Lewis, while lead singer Ike Sheldon takes on an Oberst melancholy in the acoustic tune "Someone's Got To Pay". And the finale "Goodbye (I've Seen It All)" takes a surprising turn into retro pop.
The somber piano instrumental "an old murder ballad to life" leads into (and foreshadows) the prologue of the astounding "Sittin' On A Jury" saga, which was inspired by the real life jilted lover murder trial on which Wilders guitarist Phil Wade served as juror. The multi-staged narrative is divided into five installments - the eerie "Prologue", stand out stomper "The Prosecution", mournful banjo on "The Defense", the quiet twang of "The Verdict", and distorted jailhouse fiddle in "Epilogue" - that are staggered throughout the album and each proceeded by a haunting piano instrumental.
By VICTORIA MCCABE 03/25/08 >> go there
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