What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report

I posted about this album on another thread, but it’s too good to get missed, so here it is again. It’s Walk Through Walls by Brian Capps, released on Hightone Records in 2005, when that label was amongst the best in the world (it’s now out of business). I recently got the last copy Waterloo Records in Austin had, but it shouldn’t be too hard to find.

And it will be worth the effort. Capps was a member of the Roots Rock band The Domino Kings, and after leaving formed The True Liars with members of the best unknown band in the country, The Morells (who had their own album on Hightone, also excellent and well worth looking for), out of Springfield Missouri. Morells’ bassist Lou Whitney produces Walk Through Walls, the other members of the band providing exactly the kind of accompaniment I crave. Guitarist D. Clinton Thompson has worked extensively as a sideman for artists such as Steve Forbert, Jonathan Richman, Scott Kemper, The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Robbie Fulks, Andy Shernoff, and The Del-Lords; he is GREAT! Drummer Bobby Lloyd Hicks has been with Dave Alvin (The Blasters) for years, and his parts are really cool.

The music is 100% American Roots---Sun Records Rockabilly (especially Johnny Cash), early Rock ’n’ Roll, a touch of Hillbilly, early-60’s Frat Rock and Instrumental R & R touches, but also some Singer/Songwriter influences. Capps is a good songwriter and an okay singer, but it is the musicianship of The Morells (a favorite band of the hippest musicians I know, as a well as those I don’t---Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello have expressed their appreciation) that I love about the album. Aspiring young Rockers, THIS is how to play the music!