"Tackhammer music features slide guitar, a lot of it, and some of the finer blues-rock bass playing you're likely to hear today. It features the work of San Francisco musicians Scott Davey, now also playing in the guitar instro band Lost Lake, and Rob McLucky, now also playing with Valerie Jay and the Americanos... If swamp-pop-grunge-folk-rock is your favorite style, you deserve a taste of this." (CDbaby description)
mp3 samples:
Ain't No Harm in Walking
Snitchjacket
Don't Like to Worry (full version)
(one man's opinion...)
"Workingman's Dead Meets The Swamp
Surfer"
Reviewer: Steve Komen
This is cool. It’s refreshing to get a good mix of instrumental and vocal tracks. The instrumentals strike different moods from lovely,sentimental Beatles-y to raging swamp surf, but they all have that warm sound like the kind of records that people say they don’t make anymore. The songs are a whole other dimension. If the Dead were from New Orleans instead of San Francisco, Workingman’s Dead might have had these tracks. They’re the kind of songs tht sound like they’ve been around forever. The singer has a kind of old wisdom in his voice that you can’t get unless you’ve been around the block a few times. I especially like "Blue No More". It gave me a chill and I listened to it again immediately. Would definitely recommend for those that are in the market for something substantial.