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The 81\u2019s (that\u2019s their punctuation, not mine) make a Crazy Horse-styled, shaggy rock that bears the influence of folk (in the lyrical approach) and punk (in the guitar textures). Music without artifice, 2 Things & 119 Others<\/i> is solid rock with lots of impassioned (but not overwrought) guitar solos. The songs are more than mere excuses for soloing, though; while they\u2019re structurally simple, they hold up to close inspection.<\/p>\n
If you dig The Blasters, this group may well be to your taste. Take their stripped-down approach, add some nice vocal harmonies and add lyrics that work as well on the written pages as they do on record, and you\u2019ll have this album. There\u2019s a timeless feel to this music; it could have just as easily been recorded last week as in 1975 or 1987. The 81\u2019s are from Nashville, but the twang quotient on 2 Things & 118 Others<\/i> has more in common with paisley underground groups like The Long Ryders, Dream Syndicate and the like.<\/p>\n
While guitarist Tim Carroll is the (excellent) lead vocalist, The group\u2019s secret weapon is backing\/harmony singer Addi McDaniel. Her pipes add just the right texture to the songs. The moody \u201cCamino de Santiago\u201d is cinematic in its scope and delivery. And lyricist Tom Siering (who doesn\u2019t play or sing on the record) is at his strongest on the searing social commentary of \u201cFacebook.\u201d And while much of the album is midtempo, the driving rocker \u201cJimmy\u201d \u2013 nearly halfway through the record \u2013 shows that The 81\u2019s can amp it up.<\/p>\n
A mild caveat: The group\u2019s stylistic palette isn\u2019t the most expansive. But there\u2019s virtue in consistency. Put another way, if you like one<\/em> thing (the opening track), that\u2019s a good indicator of how you\u2019ll feel about the The 81\u2019s (that\u2019s their punctuation, not mine) make a Crazy Horse-styled, shaggy rock that bears the influence of folk (in the lyrical approach) and punk (in the guitar textures). Music […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,49,62,65],"tags":[4247],"class_list":["post-19116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alt-country","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-the-81s","cat-4-id","cat-49-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19116"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29457,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19116\/revisions\/29457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}118<\/del> 11 others that follow. Me, I dig it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"