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Scotland Barr & The Slow Drags "Legionnaires' Disease"

2005 | Genre: Americana | Alt Country | Folk Rock | Songwriter

If there were an album to smoke to, this would be it. Scotland Barr & the Slow Drags is a pub band with a knack for a weepy groove, as evidenced by the mournful slide guitar on the title track. These are not quick, happy tunes although "Sun Years" rushes to a British Invasion pace.

Sounding world-weary and out of luck, Barr catches the downcast, drunken mood of a burned-out cowboy. Where the collective unconscious meets a dusty west coast reality, Scotland Barr and the Slow Drags live, write and play. Gritty songs float between an old school 60/70's songwriter aesthetic and a contemporary alt-country Americana furnace blast. Their songs burn with a slight literary edge, they take you somewhere but they don't just drop you off, they bring you home again too, even if home is no place you want to be.

Acoustic guitar, pedal steel and keyboards tangle with overdriven guitar; four part harmonies recall the Beach Boys and the Band; full throttle drums irreverently confuse country and rock. Their style can be reminiscent of Steve Earle, Elvis Costello, the Pogues and Pink Floyd, all within a single song. With influences ranging from Merle Haggard to the Flaming Lips, their sound undeniably borrows from the classics, draws from their contemporaries and crosses many borders - yet remains distinctively their own.

The group was started in 2004 originally as a studio project but quickly evolved into a full time band. Scotland Barr is the primary singer/songwriter. He fronted several NW bands throughout the 90's including "Whipping Dead Horses" and "Gage". In his current incarnation he plays a caustic acoustic warrior crafting songs that bite and crackle with intensity while maintaining a melodic edge. He has been warned repeatedly not to take voice lessons; he has been warned just as repeatedly that he MUST. His insights into the darker side of the human condition resonate throughout their songs. The Bi-polar Nature of beauty, love, hate, hope, addiction, and shattered dreams are explored with a sympathetic yet cynically brutal heart .Songs that look at a glass that is neither half empty nor half full.... but both! The lyrics take you not only through the experience but through the world.

Though led by a singer/songwriter the Slow Drags are tight as a sonic whole, capable of subtle interplay, complex harmonies, eerie melodies and a cosmic attack that will soothe you and disturb you at the same time. With influences ranging from Merle Haggard to the Magnetic Fields their sound is undeniably "classic" yet innovatively their own. The band is comprised of west coast music veteran Eugene Nucci on bass (Chiva Knevil, Fun Box and Sketchy Ted), long time Portland drummer Matt Nicely (Christine Young Band), new addition Chris Hubbard on keys/vocals and replacing the much missed Jon Itkin on lead guitar/vocals with equal talent is Charley Adams from The Sham.

The CD contains guest appearances from an arsenal of Portland's best musicians including Steve Wilkinson (Gravel Pit and Mission 5), Rachel Taylor Brown, Marilee Horde (Golden Delicious) Derek Brown (A.C. Cotton, Stephen Ashbrook and James Low), Rich Landar (Richmond Fontaine and King Black Acid), Skip Von Kuske (Vagabond Opera), Chris Robley (The Sort Ofs and The Imprints) and Portland's undisputed king of one-man-bands, Pug Bernhardt.

Track List:

01 - Legionnaires' Disease

02 - Bruised Tattoo

03 - Sun Years

04 - When You Cried

05 - Saving Grace

06 - Always Cherry

07 - A Woman's Way

08 - The Distance

09 - 1000 Roads

10 - Count On Me

11 - Spanish Dust

12 - 5 Years In Nashville

13 - Delta Dive Buy It at Lowest Price on Amazon

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