Danceable, high-energy, entertaining roots rock

10 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Roots Rock, BLUES: Rockin' Blues



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The Luvpuppets
By JEAN McDERMOTT
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[This] Anchorage-based, roots rock band features four guys of wildly divergent interests yet the music just seems to click.

The simple joy of playing music comes through on each original cut. Danceable, high-energy, entertaining numbers: Thereâs one ballad, one reggae number and one, well, ominous Christensen-penned cut, âBad Times.â âDonât bother me/ Donât you give me them rules/ Donât swim out too far from ground/ The undertow gonnaâ drag you down/ A fool befriends a fool he ends a fool/ I ainât talking to you.â Other songs explore street people, love lost and gained, and then thereâs Lillardâs anguished homage to the late bluesman Roy Buchanan. âIâve been down/ But I ainât never been down like he was/ Iâve been down/ But I ainât never been dead, locked in a cage.â Lillard said he worked on the song for 15 years until he figured out how to sum up Buchananâs influence. âBuchanan died in 1989, hung himself in a jail cell in northern Virginia. It was a tragedy. He was such an incredibly guitar player. I got to see him a couple times.

Buchananâs influences loom heavily on âThe Return,â but so do Chuck Berry, a bit of Nick Lowe, some Neil Young, blues, David Lindley and the Grateful Dead.