POT LIQUOR

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"Angel and Sue came to New York City from Georgia and Tennessee in the mid-eighties and formed The Last Roundup, a country-pop band that included Amy Rigby and stood slightly to one side of the avant-garde post-punk universe that was so much a part of their authentic pedigree at the time. Nearly twenty years later, Dean and Garner are wiser and warmer, but their re-collaboration has an added touch, a new dark shudder that runs throughout the record, partly due to the lyrics written by Dean's horror-author husband Jonathan Thomas, and partly a result of the impeccable old lace and lullaby two-part hillbilly harmonies. "The Old Graveyard in the Woods," "Quarry Pond," "Sandbar,"Barn," and especially, "Morning Blaze" are steeped in rustic decay, and Dwight Yoakam's old bassist J.D. Foster has the smarts to keep his production simple here, with only a few esoteric touches along the way. This is brilliant stuff-written, produced, performed: sweet and angelic, and in some places even whimsical, but with the deadly Gothic." http://harpmagazine.com