Gary Lucas - Swamp T'ing (Single)

Digital Download Order HERE Somewhere between a steamroller and hellhound train, this record is here to run you over. The term that pops in my teeming word-cloud is drive. Taut and loose at the same time, monolithic, monomaniacal and when Lucas’s guitar bellows and screams, just plain maniacal, this downtown supergroup—recorded live in 2006—is more cohesive and focused than a hundred together-forever bands. So much so you wonder how the musicians could ever stand to be apart. Or how anyone could have left this on the shelf.Experience has taught me to look askance at live rock albums (and while this may be avant-rock, the emphasis is resolutely on the back of the hyphen). But these sturdy, mostly up-tempo tunes, mostly by Lucas, gain crazy authority amid the sweat and beer. And the driving sound, produced by band member—and as reaffirmed here, B3 virtuoso—Jerry Harrison, gains an overdriven quality that’s perfect. In an imperfect, noisy way.You may know the origin story of Gary Lucas—wh