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Antic Clay |
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Alternative, Alternative Country, Blues, Country, Folk, Goth |
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Press release:
"Antic Clay (AKA Blind Michael Bradley) is the singer and founder of acclaimed dark western rock band MYSSOURI.
(www.myssouri.com--also great for film music).
Weary of the bombast, he's picked up an acoustic guitar and harmonica to assemble a sublime, haunting and timeless 10-song cycle title Hilarious Death Blues. According to Bradley, the name is derived from novelist Cormac McCarthy's 1985 masterpiece Blood Meridian, and his record is "an unauthorized soundtrack to the film which the book projects in my mind." And while the self- imposed "blues" tag can be deceptive, HDB exists within a framework of that deeply rooted American musical heritage, along with folk and early country.The record can take you to a new place in a howling wilderness with each listen, but the familiarity of its instrumentation and (quasi) traditional song structure can also evoke memorial places of great comfort and introspection.
So it should come as no surprise that, when asked for influences on HDB, Bradley takes no time to rattle off heavies such as Bruce Springsteen ("Nebraska"), Neil Young ("Harvest"), Bob Dylan, Townes Van Zandt, Leonard Cohen and, not surprisingly (given Bradley's austere black suit and hat), Johnny Cash.
Bradley's dark baritone may sometimes remind you of Johnny Cash. Or more modern low-singin' forebears like Jim Morrison, Nick Cave and Joy Division's Ian Curtis. The penultimate track, the disc's only cover song, happens to be an acoustic retelling of Joy Division's "Decades" that is so rich, sad and engaging that the original sounds thinner and yet is somehow made even more sad by comparison.
With rousing boot-stompers ("Look Down the Dark Barrel", "On Holy Mountain", "Unholy Thing"), an instantly classic tavern singalong ("Islay and Ale"), an epic ballad ("The Table of Souls"), the stark and unsettling ("Violence is Yours", "Christ Will Clean You Like a Fish Blues", "Wainwright"), and a sweet and hopeful love song, complete with sleighbells and fingersnaps to close ("Thousand Star Hotel"), Hilarious Death Blues reveals Blind Michael Bradley as a rare, immense and (thus far) undiscovered talent with a unique, nostalgic penchant for evoking the mysterious past through a world-weary modern lens."
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