Scott H. Biram - Bad Ingredients - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Mississippi Fred McDowell - Heroes of the Blues Very Best of [COMPACT DISCS] Rmst date 09/09/2003

2017 . With heart of a genuine Texas bluesman, the head (banging) of Zappa and Lemmy disciple and boots resting in the dust outside of town at sunrise, Scott H. Biram journeys through the harrowing human condition like no one else. A walk on the Biram side-straddles the chasm between sin and redemption, and The Bad Testament lands somewhere west of the Old Testament and south of an AA handbook. It's a record of hard grinding lost love and deep, dark Americana with songwriting on the razor's edge of aggression and deftness, thoroughly contemporary but steeped in the backwaters, back porches, and back alleys of our collective musical heritage.

It's been said that rock and roll came from the blues on the right hand and country on the left; Scott H. Biram is the middle finger on both Austin TX's dirty old one-man band's third album for Bloodshot is profane and tender, alluring and frightening, and while such intensely polarizing forces would tear a lesser man apart, Scott appears to revel in the tug of war. With his '59 Gibson, mouth harp and electrified stomp board, hismuddied water gospel is sly enough to charm the devil, and the hip shake boogie irresistible enough to get the Man upstairs to come down and share a bottle of the brown with him. Scott can just as easily throw down some feral amped-up Delta blues as a stone cold country weeper that'll get the girls all dewy-eyed with faith and desire as a heavy metal field holler.