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MP3 Joe Rut - Genuine Woodgrained Finish

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Americana without borders, effortlessly shifting gears from Byrds-Alt-Twang to psychedelic guitar workouts. Fiddle and pedal steel float about a simultaneously eclectic and coherent lyrical vision.

14 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Americana, COUNTRY: Country Rock



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Joe Rut is a hidden secret of the Bay Area music scene. His infrequent live shows have earned him a reputation, among those in the know, as a gifted songwriter, guitarist and singer with wide-ranging musical interests and vision. He was recently honored by an evening of artists performing covers of his songs, and this is the album that started it all!!!

In his debut CD, "Genuine Woodgrained Finish", Joe Rut has absorbed influences from the top 40 radio of his Bakersfield childhood to Appalachian fiddle tunes and spit out a vision that is simultaneously eclectic and coherent.

You can hear The Byrds and REM in the 12-string jangle. A pissed-off ghost is channelled through some Physical Graffiti-era Jimmy Page-style slide guitar, and Frank Zappa is hiding somwhere in a 7/8, 3/4, 4/4 train-off-the-tracks electric guitar workout. The reason Zappa is hiding is that in Joe's world, it's a constant battle between the cynical and the romantic. Zappa knows when and when not poke his head into the crossfire. Once he stuck his head up for a peak and Gram Parsons caught him in the noggin with a beer bottle. Townes Van Zandt laughed.

In the end, this is American music, and not the current "hijacked" America. Pedal steel guitar (courtesy of San Francisco's master steeler Joe Goldmark) and fiddle (fiddle champion Jeremy Brown) alternately soothe and explode. Ain't no sacharin in those three-part harmonies: That's sugar!!! Holding it all together is Joe's lyrical vision, walking the tightrope between the hooks that make you sing along, and subtleties and multiple layers of meaning that reward repeated listening with new treasures.

Joe is a founding member of college radio-charting alt-country outfit Loretta Lynch, and played with San Francisco's jug-rock hooligans 86(the band), and bluegrass-rock stompers the Spikedrivers.

With Loretta Lynch, Joe has played at England's Glastonbury Music Festival and the second stages at Shoreline and Sleep Train Amphitheatres opening for Alabama. With experimental guitarist Henry Kaiser's band, he opened for Richard Thompson at the famed Fillmore in San Francisco.

Dennis Baum says: "Like listening to the radio back when radio still had balls enough to mix it up. This CD takes you on quite a trip!!"

Check out http://www.joerut.com for more info, show dates, etc.


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