A local discovery: The Darnell
Boys
Mess, mess, and brilliant.
The Darnell Boys hail from Athens,
Georgia. They play musical chairs with their instruments. When I saw them in an
Atlanta basement over the summer (2013), they were raising money to buy another guitar
and exchange the instruments they had with each other from song to song. Their
drum set was made out of pots and pans. And, they could all play every
instrument.
And they manage to
create an incredible sound: rough, in-your-face, and spicy. The first
track on their self-titled album “You Got The Devil” is their hottest
track. It starts with a zesty guitar beat, then the electric guitars comes in
with the spoons (drum set). The Boys sing together, but slightly off, creating
a delayed, lingering, sensual sound. Also, they are singing about North Georgia
mountain girls being taken into the hearth of the devil, a very, very seductive
dude. The track ends in chaos with layered voices and echoed harmonies.
Tracks range from a band of train
robbers to catfish to hard times. But each track is relentless, and on the
whole the album continues to bump and pump the whole way through. No slow
numbers for the Darnell Boys. Sadness and lonesome hearts, yes, but not slow.
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