The Gourds - Heavy Ornamentals
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Artist: The GourdsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-01-24
Music Label: Eleven Thirty
Soundtracks:
- Declineometer
- Burn the Honeysuckle
- Betty
- Shake the Chandelier
- New Roommate
- Hooky Junk
- Weather Woman
- Stab
- Our Patriarch
- The Education Song
- Collection's Getting
- Pill Bug Blues
- Pick & Roll
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Free Music Review: what a great-sounding Austin band
Hit: 5 Stars
I heard the Gourds interviewed on NPR a couple of years ago. They have such a fun, laid-back attitude. And the cuts played were just great...including "Hooky Junk" which is based on one of their young sons asking his dad to play that "hooky junk," meaning Tom Waits! How can you not love that. The whole CD is wonderful and really contagious.
Heavy Ornamentals Poster
Time-warped and roots-twisted, the Gourds sound like a good-time band from a parallel universe, one that puts traditional instrumentation--mandolin, accordion, fiddle--behind lyrics that dissolve the distinctions between the elliptical, the enigmatic, and the absurd. "Burn the Honeysuckle" and "Hooky Junk" suggest the Band on psychedelic mushrooms, while "Shake the Chandelier" finds the Austin quintet paying Tex-Mex homage to the late, great Doug Sahm and his Sir Douglas Quintet. For all the twists and loops, the band's organic interplay is rarely less than engaging, from the kick-start propulsion of the album-opening "Declineometer" through the wistful balladry of "Our Patriarch." It may be hard to know what the music means, but it's difficult to resist how it feels. --Don McLeeseAlternative Rock Music CDs
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Top music charts in Best of 2006 chiefly Americana,Roots Rock,Country Rock,by Japanese
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