Careful Of The Undertow
* Undertow Orchestra: Closing Down My House (9.0 mb) | Criticism As Inspiration (8.5 mb) | The Devil Is Beating His Wife (7.5 mb) | I Do (7.5 mb)
From Live At The 40 Watt Club : Feb 06, 2006 : Athens, GA
Well, this is kinda (really) cool. A bunch of indie/americana rockers getting together for a collaborative tour under the banner of the Undertow Orchestra. So, here’s the line-up.
David Bazan: From Pedro The Lion (look here). An incredible songwriter, able to write unironic concept albums about good and evil in this world.
Vic Chesnutt: A writer coming from the Southern Gothic tradition.
Mark Eitzel: Frontman for the American Music Club, brilliantly melding rock, country, blues, folk, punk and lounge into one great whole.
Will Johnson: Frontman for a number of bands, including Centro-matic. A powerful alt country songwriter.
Scott Danbom: A musician in Centro-matic.
They all share the stage and rotate between each others songs. Alternating between lead and back up. It’s a pretty cool idea and the execution is fantastic. These players are really able to get into each others musical ideas and come up with something new.
Hope you enjoy this. Warning, Closing Down My House has a semi-raunchy/funny joke at the end.
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matt said,
February 26, 2006 @ 1:37 pm
I really like the Devil is beating his wife. Who’s singing? He kind of sounds like Chris Martin (no offense intended.) Those soaring vocals at the end get me and the cadence of that line, “…So he takes another drink…” and the band kicks in. great song
Jonathan Wolgamuth said,
March 7, 2006 @ 7:46 pm
That would be David Bazan, and the Devil is Beating His Wife was one of the last recorded Pedro the Lion songs (don’t think it ever got on a CD). David did the Undertow Orchestra thing and has a keyboard band called Headphones which is really, really good. (Undertow did “Slow Car Crash” from David’s Headphones album). I’m looking forward to good things yet from Mr. Bazan.