Possessed by Paul James (Texas)
Rickett Pass
Stretched Across the Tracks
April 25th —7pm, $6 – at the Trumbullplex in Detroit (down Trumbull street in Woodbridge)
Been watching and waiting for the metro-area’s preeminent punk-frayed bluegrass folk-brawlers to come back around?
Black Jake & The Carnies have conjured their quintessential roust and ricocheting styled bluegrass romp with this single. Busy, buzzing violins that slice and sashay, bass buoyant like a frog dance, banjo burping giddily to goad you along and those wheezy wailing harmonized vocals thrumming together so warmly like a grimy gospel choir.
The new E.P. features the fervent scratch-illustrations of Black Jake on the cover – nicely summing up their music and it’s live presentation – snarled and gothic and freaky, intensely pressed, but precise. It’s out tomorrow and the release show will be Thursday night in Detroit. Repent, and rock!
This article appears in Apr 17-23, 2013.
