Hymn for Her - Lucy & Waynes Smokin Flames - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Lucy Tight and Wayne Waxing of Hymn for Her have been busy touring across the country and abroad over the past few years, injecting juiced-up backwoods country blues with a dose of desert rock psychedelia that has been described as InchHell's Angels meets the Amish.Inch They recorded their last album, Hymn for Her Presents... Lucy and Wayne and the Amairican Stream, in their vintage 1961 Bambi Airstream trailer at locations stretching from Philadelphia to Malibu on a three-month tour. For their new , Hymn for Her Presents... Lucy and Wayne's Smokin Flames, the twosome wanted to kick it into high gear. They traveled to Detroit to work with Jim Diamond, who mixed the Amairican Stream. Arriving at Diamond's studio with road-tested tunes, Hymn for Her recorded live and mixed 12 original songs in just one week. InchPeople wanted what they heard live at shows and we captured that moment and corked it,Inch explained Lucy. The duo certainly covers a lot of musical territory in Smokin Flames. Their wild-eyed mash-up of country, blues and punk led U.K. music critic Steve Bennett to call H4H's sound Incha riotous, rocking roadkill stew,Inch while others have referenced such diverse bands as Captain Beefheart, Primus, X, R.L. Burnside, JS Blues Explosion and the Ramones. Impressively, the two create their Inchripsaw soundsInch (Los Angeles Times' Randy Lewis) with only a few instruments. Wayne (with the devilish voice), mainly playing the kick-drum, high-hat, acoustic guitar and harp, serves as the group's rhythmic driving force. Lucy (of the fallen-angel voice) delivers a gritty squall on her InchLowebowInch - a custom-made cigar-box guitar that she describes as InchThe Riff Monster.Inch in InchTrash the SunInch Lucy launches a solo into the stratosphere, while she kicks up a sonic dust storm on InchMojave.Inch InchMojaveInch stands among several Smokin Flames songs that were i