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...album will leave listeners confounded as to how songs that veer so close to self-parody (such as “Peoria Lunch Box Blues”) can be so utterly enjoyable. With its Southern-inflected vocals from Jason Molina, haunting background harmonies (which recall Patti Smith) from Jennie Benford and slow, steady arrangements of guitar and piano, this is no typical rock album. But it might have been your father’s in the mid-70?...
Enter foul-mouthed Morton Hell (Steven Black) and his four Yahoos (living incarnations of Morton Downey Jr. and his obnoxious studio audience); Felicia Falana (Christina Estabrook), a Sally Jesse Raphael-like monster woman whose concern for her interviewees is as genuine as her hair piece; and Phylicia Butterworth (Starla Benford) and Chuck Buck (Michael Starr), early morning talk show hosts who sit on giant coffee cups and are equipped with saccharine sweet salutations...
Jimmy Archey is still the best in town, and he is still at Jimmy Ryans, the last of the 52nd Street dives. Pops Foster, who was the first bass-player to go all-pizzicato, and drummer Tommy Benford, who hit the main circuit with Jelly Roll Morton, assist the star trombonist. Sunday...
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