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Tear It Up
The Smackers / CD / 2007
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Artist
The Smackers
Format
CD
Genre
Rock
Label Name
Independent
Release Date
2006
Song List
1: Tear It Up (2:13)
2: Chainsaws and Beer (3:38)
3: Red Sun Sinking (3:05)
4: Vampire Girls (3:35)
5: Fixer Upper (3:40)
6: Sally (2:58)
7: Love Doll (2:42)
8: I Go Blind (3:19)
9: Slow Burn (3:09)
10: Baby Come Home (2:20)
11: Borderline (2:47)
Style.Categories
Bar Band, Roots Rock, Rock & Roll
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With twangy guitars, twangier vocals, choogling rhythms, and song titles like
"Chainsaws and Beer"
and
"Vampire Girl,"
the Smackers
' debut album brings up memories of everyone from
psychobilly
vets like
the Cramps
and
Reverend Horton Heat
to more earnest
roots rockers
like
Walter Clevenger
and
the Morells
. There's also a big dose of
NRBQ
's lyrical playfulness in comic tunes like
"Sally,"
a love song about a bank robber, and
"Love Doll,"
which is basically
Roxy Music
's
"In Every Dream Home a Heartache"
written from the doll's point of view.
Singer/songwriter
Sandy Craig
has an appealingly careworn voice reminiscent of
Ray Mason
or
Dire Straits
'
Mark Knopfler
and a nice way with pre-
Beatles
pop
and
country
riffs. The addition of female singer
Nina Knef
(
Craig
's sister) on
"Love Doll"
and
"Red Sun Sinking"
is a nice touch as well. The album's production is so colorless as to be almost invisible, which to be fair doesn't detract from
Craig
's uniformly fine songwriting, but it also means
Tear It Up
lacks a certain vitality. The frisson of a more "live," rougher-edged sound would up the excitement level of these occasionally sleepy tunes. Overall, however,
Tear It Up
is a promising debut. ~ Stewart Mason, All Music Guide
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