Eddie Spaghetti - Extra Sauce - VINYL LP

In 2003, Motherfuckers Be Trippin' revived the Supersuckers nameplate. Issued through their own Mid Fi imprint, it riffed and smirked with renewed zing and estimable sleaze. That air of lovable gracelessness carries over to Suckers' main man Eddie Spaghetti's first solo effort, a messy and grinning bucket of covers called Sauce. In his liner notes, Spaghetti trashes the whole idea of solo records, especially those that consist solely of covers. But in typical fashion, that doesn't stop him from doing his own. Sauce features quick and easy, largely acoustic versions of outlaw country faves from Kris Kristofferson (InchBest of all Possible WorldsInch) and Willie Nelson (the mirthful and giddy InchGotta Get DrunkInch). There's also a run through InchCocaine Blues,Inch but his isn't underpinned with terror like Johnny Cash's. Instead, Spaghetti cranks it out steely and fast, like it was the last song of the middle set in a Tuesday night dive bar gig. He gets a tad serious - or at least heartfelt - with Steve Earle's InchI Don't Want to Lose You Yet,Inch but it's back to a bleary-eyed cross of honky tonkin' and low culture slummin' for InchPeace in the ValleyInch (originally by A3) InchWell I got ecstasy/But I need some company. Inch That sentiment continues for InchKiller Weed,Inch the better of Spaghetti's two originals here. As he does throughout Sauce, Eddie adopts a sort of deadpan Lee Hazlewood persona for the track - he might as well perch a raglan horse head on the lip of a six-foot bong. Sauce isn't country, and it doesn't rock like his day job. But from end to end, it drips with the same dastardly good-time juice that defines the best Supersuckers stuff. Written by Johnny Loftus, borrowed from AllMusic. Com Album Tracks 1. The Best of All Possible Worlds (K. Kristofferson) 2. Bottom Dollar (B. Shaver/D. Finley) 3. Sleepy Vampire (E. Spaghetti) 4. Got