Bob Collum And The Welfare Mothers - Set The Stupid Free
Track List :1. Set The Stupid Free
2. Virginia Mystery
3. Damaged One
4. Disco Jesus
5. Nevermore
6. Jennifer Jones
7. Well Runs Dry
8. Cemetery Blues
9. A Little Wind
10. Brought Up Wrong
11. Mystery Track
With a name like Bob Collum & The Welfare Mothers, with an album title like that, not to mention their project in early 2008 appearances at the Veterans Leytonstone's Club and an event called Prozac Yokel, I really wanted to like this album .
Anyone who moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma in Basildon, certainly deserves some kind of reward in the form of joyous critical acclaim for their music.
Unfortunately, it simply can not be done. The songs on The Stupid Set Free are like ghosts of the other tracks, you listen and you are haunted by the feeling that you have heard somewhere before them.
The lyrics are packed with too many cliches, I am beginning to wonder if it is a travesty and I just do not get it. There is nothing wrong in the album, but it is eminently damnable pale with praise. The musicality is competent, tacking on polished, with a little grain to the electric guitar here and there, and good slimily pedal steel.
There's just something about it all the ersatz. Especially avoidable maudlin Damaged One song, although the previous track, Mystery Virginia with a strong hook even though the musical phrasing is a little corny and predictable.
The runway, however, must be a cover of old blues standard (What You Gonna Do When The) Well Runs Dry? Who sounds much more committed than the other songs, not exactly kicking up his heels. Unfortunately, it is followed by Blues Cemetery, which sounds like it was recorded by a group completely different, with his style U2 pealing guitars and bathetic rhymes, ending with a big rock climax of clattering drums and electric guitar that seems fair exotic in this context.
There are several styles to display further from the echoey Honky Tonk Disco Jesus (overstays its welcome by about 2 minutes), which is bizarrely followed by one of these commendable close harmony with the dearly departed "Nevermore," with its bluegrass - Saying runway, which in turn gave way to a poppy tribute to the former American talk-show host Jennifer Jones. It might be schizophrenic, it is not intriguing.
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1 Comments
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Err...Jennifer Jones is an old American movie star (as opposed to Jenny Jones the trash TV host). If you are going to trash a guy's album, at least get your pop culture references right....
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