{"id":19476,"date":"2020-09-08T05:30:52","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T09:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=19476"},"modified":"2020-08-24T15:59:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T19:59:37","slug":"album-review-tyler-keith-the-last-drag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/08\/album-review-tyler-keith-the-last-drag\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Tyler Keith \u2013 The Last Drag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19477\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/tyler_keith.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/tyler_keith.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/tyler_keith-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/tyler_keith-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Do you like rock \u2018n\u2019 roll? I mean the sweaty, greasy, sloppy, noisy stuff, the kind of music that gets your heart pumping and makes you want to get involved somehow \u2013 air guitar, head-nodding, first pumping \u2013 to more fully experience it? Then I\u2019d very much like to direct your attention to <i>The Last Drag<\/i>, the new album from Memphis rocker Tyler Keith.<\/p>\n<p>Keith writes all ten of the tunes on this LP, and he plays multiple instruments: guitar, bass, organ \u2013 and does all of the lead vocal work. He\u2019s joined throughout by drummer\/bassist Bronson Tew, and a list of guest artists helping out includes the estimable Jimbo Mathus. His name alone offers enough cred to make it a must-hear, and while it\u2019s true that <i>The Last Drag<\/i> sports a musical sensibility that\u2019s very much in line with that of Mathus, Keith has his own sound.<\/p>\n<p>Just when you think that you\u2019ve sorted out what kind of an album it is, The Last Drag surprises. \u201cBorn Again Virgin\u201d is reminiscent of down and dirty \u201870s New York City, Dolls- and Heartbreakers style. The moody \u201cShame, Lies &amp; Cruelty\u201d has a high lonesome vibe, featuring delightfully evocative strings and brass. \u201cTake Me Home\u201d might remind you of The Stooges or <i>Bach\u2019s Bottom<\/i>-era Alex Chilton. The title track is kinda Stonesy.<\/p>\n<p>The roaring guitars and pummeling sonic attack of \u201cIn the Parking Lot\u201d favors energy over tunefulness; it\u2019s a noisy mess, but it\u2019s <i>supposed<\/i> to be one, and succeeds on that level.\u201dDown by the\u2026\u201d is redloent of The Cramps. \u201cBeat Temptation\u201d is a catchy melody wrapped in itchy burlap. And the r\u2019n\u2019r throwback of \u201cScarlett Fever\u201d feels like an ace bar band nearing the end of their set when nearly everyone but hardcore fans have gone home; they\u2019re playing for those listeners and them alone. But you can join that club.<\/p>\n<p>Detractors might comment that Keith could have taken a few extra moments and tuned his guitar before recording these songs. That, of course, misses the point. This is rock \u2018n\u2019 roll, the real deal. Leave tuning to those prog guys!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you like rock \u2018n\u2019 roll? I mean the sweaty, greasy, sloppy, noisy stuff, the kind of music that gets your heart pumping and makes you want to get involved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,59,62,65,73],"tags":[4296],"class_list":["post-19476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-punk","category-rawk","category-review","category-vinyl","tag-tyler-keith","cat-49-id","cat-59-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","cat-73-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19476","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=19476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19478,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19476\/revisions\/19478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}