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LIMES
'RHINESTONE RIVER'
GONER RECORDS |
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 | Catalogue No: 59GONE
Format: LP
Barcode: 600385202817
|  | Catalogue No: 59GONECD
Format: CD
Barcode: 600385202824
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| TRACK
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1. Vacation
2. Rusty Old Clock
3. Rhinestone River
4. Kantina Katrina
5. Good Times
6. Bottom of the Hole
7. Sounds Like a Shimmy
8. Do You Mind
9. Haunted House
10. Ice Caps
11. Pretty Wings
12. Bad Year
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INFORMATION |
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Memphis is home to several of rock’s most endearingly offkilter
rock storytellers, from Jim Dickinson to Jeffrey Evans
to Ross Johnson. To that list, one can now add Shawn
Cripps, leader of The Limes.
On the band’s debut full-length, Rhinestone River, Cripps
retains the musical talents of Harlan T. Bobo, who previously
helped on The Limes’ Rock ’n’ Roll Heart single.
Bobo’s hypnotic keyboards perfectly complement Cripps’s
gritty guitar work and vocals, particularly on “Sounds Like
a Shimmy.” Rhinestone River also features contributions by
Memphis scene stalwarts Ross Johnson, Paul Buchignani
(Afghan Whigs, Bobo’s backing band), Alicja Trout (Lost
Sounds, River City Tanlines) and Bruce Saltmarsh (’68
Comeback, Porch Ghouls).
The title track, with its wobbly gait and lyrics like “Sitting
on this barstool, sweating the rhinestone river,” can
induce secondhand drunkenness in anyone within earshot.
“Rhinestone River” is the closest an American band has
gotten to the pickled poetry of the Country Teasers. The
momentum and melody of “Bottom of the Hole” unfurl like
the narrative thrust of a bourbon-soaked anecdote at two in
the morning.
The album’s crown jewel is the closing track, “Last Year.”
Cater-cornered rock guitars and Cripps’s talkin’ vocal style
build up to a woozy climax that culminates in a feral “woohoo.”
Like the other great songs on Rhinestone River, it
threatens to fall apart several times but Cripps, with a little
help from his friends and his engaging personality, holds it
all together.
No vinyl returns. GONER is this year's label of geatness!
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