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Raise ‘em High
Self-release
By Al Kaufman
Simply put, Caddle is a bunch of good ol’ boys with loud guitars who like drinkin’ and fornicatin’, in that order. But what they do they do well. This is high octane southern rock in the style of late, great Truckadelic. Or maybe you can think of them as a young, electric Steve Earle for the uneducated.
This is a gang with energy to burn, and burn it they do. Even though there is not even one song about a pick-up truck on the album, the whole thing smells of liquor and diesel fumes. Even their supposed ballads, such as “Give Me a Dollar,” sizzle with energy. Topics such as leaving work early to drink (“Afternoon Lies”) and lamenting over the fact that he did not dig a deep enough grave for his girlfriend after killing her (“Had to Die”) along with clever little redneck lines, such as “I’ll drink about you until the morning comes,” only add to their trashy mystique.
The boys in Caddle are not going to win any guitar contests, and they’re not going to change the world with their music, but a bunch of boys and girls in boots and cowboy hats could do a whole lot worse than listening to them when while crack open their Pabst Blue Ribbons.
Caddle play the Star Bar with Cogburn and Jimmie and the Teasers, Friday, March 9, 9 pm. $5. |
