Juke Baritone
Juke Baritone
© 2007 Brett Maverix (859700289594)
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Think Tom Waits with a hangover at a Screamin’ Jay Hawkins gig in New Orleans and you’ve got the Juke playing his own brand of old world swampy cabaret growlin’ blues.
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Juke Baritone & The Swamp Dogs play their own brand of old world swampy cabaret growlin’ blues. Think Tom Waits with a hangover at a Screamin’ Jay Hawkins gig in New Orleans and you’ve got the Juke.
The band is a 6 piece powerhouse of some of Sydney’s (Australia) finest musicians including Lindsay Page (King Tide) and John Maddox (Gauche).
There’s an electric stage show with lots of costumes, drinking, posturing, growling, dancing on tables, drinking, a bit more dancing, falling over and then a little bit more drinking. This is one band you’ll want to say you saw first.
The debut self titled album Juke Baritone will be released worldwide in September on itunes and physical copies will be available from select stores and other online retailers through the newly formed Bag Lady Records.
With stellar performances at the Basement in Sydney Australia, The Famous Spiegeltent for Sydney Festival 2007, and The Beach Rd Hotel Bondi plus more to be announced, Juke Baritone & The Swamp Dogs will be one of this years premier festival acts.
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Yeahha!
author: angelaGreat!never felt so good while hearing music! I'd like to have the album for download! PLEAASE! can't wait to have it here in germany...
großartig!!
author: Christian Beckergreat music with rough vocalist!! but i wish the same would be recorded in good quality! it´s a pitty that you can´t hear everything they can do!
- author: Joel
I can't begin to disseminate this album. Juke Baritone's self-titled debut is one of the most fluid things I've heard recently. At times the lyrics sound like a stream-of-consciousness rant ("Bill Hicks"), others sound like a deranged love song ("Ya Said Ya Loved Me"), but it's always the same gravelly, addicting voice. The band is called The Swamp Dogs, and that couldn't be more apt. The music is restless, a mix of jazz, rock, and punk fused by blues. It's terrific, really.
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- author: Brad at CD Baby
New Orleans style blues from Australia? If only it were that simple. With a swampy sound that refuses to get bogged down, this six piece turns horn-heavy blues on its head, slyly clamoring through 9 tracks of barely restrained cabaret-esque compositions that might just make the perfect soundtrack to your next night of unbridled debauchery. It's not that they're necessarily drinking songs, or that there's anything inherently evil in the music; the songs just feel like they should be surrounded by alcohol and semi-controlled raucousness, and they bring to mind a dark cellar bar that maybe you haven't even been to yet. With gravelly vocals and driving horns, you could compare it to Tom Waits, but I think their own assessment of likening it to "Screaming" Jay Hawkins may be a little closer to the mark. It's that feeling of something brewing, the intangible element of impending insanity that envelopes the sound. The tempos hit like a hard heartbeat, knocking on your noggin while the horns almost force you to sway with the beat. It's fun, but it's the kind of fun that might get you in trouble. The best kind of trouble.