2008 Woodie Awards
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By: Joseph Ingallinera
Issue date: 4/20/07 Section: TimeOut
Howdy you all, I'm back for another column of my immaculate and totally bodacious musical knowledge. This week I am as surprised at what I have found as the average Clemson student is when they find out that life can exist outside of the workplace and trying to get married. This meaning a trivial and infinitesimally small chance and ridiculously macrocosmically huge surprise. That said, I have actually found a country band that in no way has the pop tones, the horrid uninspired lyrics, and monotonously subject matter that plagues modern country music. No, not plagues, absolutely and infallibly encompasses the scene that had once had a few decent artists, such as Hank Williams. So before you pull out that overblown and nescient Garth Brooks, Keith Urban, and Kenny Chesney consider the band The Devil Makes Three. The sound that emanates from their harmonious instruments can only be classified as a reprieve from the dry, decrepit, and carcinogenic repertoire of the incestuous modern and pop country music libraries.
The three members of this band are Pete Bernhard, Lucia Turino and Cooper McBean. Pete plays the guitar, Lucia plays the upright base and Coop plays the guitar and banjo. When first encountering this band, I thought it to be another bluegrass or alternative country band that did not quite fit the genre that I had all but given absolute hope of anything good coming from it. But with further enjoyment and cogitation on the band, I had an outright and clarion epiphany that indeed this was a luminary of the long defunct and disheveled music known as country. Indeed, with my Herculean insight in discerning music, I had found music that can only be described as a proxy of what country used to be and what it certainly is not today contrary to what the local residents think, most likely including you. But in an effort to convince you all to actually not make me show some sign of patronization because of the purblind and abstemious talent for picking out music, I would say add at least one of their three albums currently released to your collection. The compilations are their self titled album; "Longjohns, Boots, and a Belt," and "A Little Bit Faster And A Little Bit Worse." Now, as little hope as I have for people actually buying complete albums in a compact disk or vinyl form (yeah, I bet you use some music program and download the all but not lacking music files that only sound melodious to those who feel comfortable with a ratchet being turned in your ear) and under the extremely unlikely circumstances that you would actually listen to the entire thing, (because I am sure most bands listened by the aforementioned most likely do not put the effort into making a true album) I would at least suggest the songs "Never Learn," "The Plank," "Chained to the Couch," "Old No. 7" and "Bangor Mash."
Now lyrically, they are something to be had and something to be thought about. In the song "Chained to the Couch" off the self-titled, the content is everything any person of intelligence could want. It references the idea that indoctrination of ideals on the young is a bad thing and that in some sense living your life the way others have outlined it rather than coming to whatever conclusions on your own is a bad thing. It is also catchy enough for everyone else who wants to listen to the flavor of the minute, everyone else as in basically everyone I have met. But, as part of my ethical and righteous duty towards attempting to help those who need some help, I part by saying please for the sake of some higher being do some good and listen to some good.
The three members of this band are Pete Bernhard, Lucia Turino and Cooper McBean. Pete plays the guitar, Lucia plays the upright base and Coop plays the guitar and banjo. When first encountering this band, I thought it to be another bluegrass or alternative country band that did not quite fit the genre that I had all but given absolute hope of anything good coming from it. But with further enjoyment and cogitation on the band, I had an outright and clarion epiphany that indeed this was a luminary of the long defunct and disheveled music known as country. Indeed, with my Herculean insight in discerning music, I had found music that can only be described as a proxy of what country used to be and what it certainly is not today contrary to what the local residents think, most likely including you. But in an effort to convince you all to actually not make me show some sign of patronization because of the purblind and abstemious talent for picking out music, I would say add at least one of their three albums currently released to your collection. The compilations are their self titled album; "Longjohns, Boots, and a Belt," and "A Little Bit Faster And A Little Bit Worse." Now, as little hope as I have for people actually buying complete albums in a compact disk or vinyl form (yeah, I bet you use some music program and download the all but not lacking music files that only sound melodious to those who feel comfortable with a ratchet being turned in your ear) and under the extremely unlikely circumstances that you would actually listen to the entire thing, (because I am sure most bands listened by the aforementioned most likely do not put the effort into making a true album) I would at least suggest the songs "Never Learn," "The Plank," "Chained to the Couch," "Old No. 7" and "Bangor Mash."
Now lyrically, they are something to be had and something to be thought about. In the song "Chained to the Couch" off the self-titled, the content is everything any person of intelligence could want. It references the idea that indoctrination of ideals on the young is a bad thing and that in some sense living your life the way others have outlined it rather than coming to whatever conclusions on your own is a bad thing. It is also catchy enough for everyone else who wants to listen to the flavor of the minute, everyone else as in basically everyone I have met. But, as part of my ethical and righteous duty towards attempting to help those who need some help, I part by saying please for the sake of some higher being do some good and listen to some good.
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