Mayo Thompson - Corky's Debt to His Father (Drag City)
One
of the greatest albums of the last 35 years that you’ve never heard,
brought back to life. After co-inventing mind-expansive free-fork freakout,
experimental buggery, and post-punk a good seven years before punk rock even
came to be recognized, Red Krayola frontman Thompson went the singer-songwriter
route with Corky’s Debt…, a righteously twisted, delicate,
haunting bask in Southern lust. Like a turned-on Mark Twain, Thompson croons
indiscretions over parlor anthems that twang like a junk-shop Van Dyke Parks
conducting Dr. Phibes’ Clockwork Wizards, chronicling the weaknesses
of the flesh with the lurid color of a rain-soaked pasture, mushrooms popping
up everywhere. By the time side two rolls around and you’re struck with
the plaintive country blues of ‘Black Legs’ you’ll know
that there’s never been a record like this before or since, and it’ll
become your bedtime listening ritual. It’s music to be shared with everyone
who thinks just like you do.
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One
of the greatest albums of the last 35 years that you’ve never heard,
brought back to life. After co-inventing mind-expansive free-fork freakout,
experimental buggery, and post-punk a good seven years before punk rock even
came to be recognized, Red Krayola frontman Thompson went the singer-songwriter
route with Corky’s Debt…, a righteously twisted, delicate,
haunting bask in Southern lust. Like a turned-on Mark Twain, Thompson croons
indiscretions over parlor anthems that twang like a junk-shop Van Dyke Parks
conducting Dr. Phibes’ Clockwork Wizards, chronicling the weaknesses
of the flesh with the lurid color of a rain-soaked pasture, mushrooms popping
up everywhere. By the time side two rolls around and you’re struck with
the plaintive country blues of ‘Black Legs’ you’ll know
that there’s never been a record like this before or since, and it’ll
become your bedtime listening ritual. It’s music to be shared with everyone
who thinks just like you do.
