After Two But Before Five

Hillstomp | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 14, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Fuzzmonster Records
• ASIN: B000U1XIVM
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #282,846 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Portland duo Hillstomp follow-up two critically-acclaimed full-lengths, 2004's 'One Word' and 2006's 'The Woman That Ended The World', with their live album, 'After Two But Before Five'. Drawing heavily from North Mississippi trance blues, a bit from the hills of Appalachia and stealing energy from punkabilly, the Portland Oregon duo Hillstomp create a raucous hill country blues stomp with a fiery youth and vigor. It comes clanging and tumbling out of an assortment of vintage mics, buckets, cans and BBQ lids drenched in rambunctious slide guitar. 'After Two But Before Five' captures the energy of their live performance while introducing new songs in Hillstomp's growing reportoire of ""Bucket'n'Slide Rock'n'Roll"". Recorded on two nights in Eugene & Portland, Oregon, the CD displays the electricity of their live show and the exuberance of their fans.

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars +1/2 -- Hypnotic two-man guitar-and-drums electric blues, April 11, 2009

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This review is from: After Two But Before Five (Audio CD)

This Northwest duo could be loosely lumped in with a half-dozen other bands playing blues as a duet of guitar and drums, but where minimalists like the Black Keys, Soledad Brothers and Radio Moscow are driving, Hillstomp is more droning. Even when they increase the beat to a toe-tapping (or hillstomping) tempo, their music remains more hypnotic than frenzied. Guitarist Henry Kammerer plays both straight six and slide guitars and vocalizes through distortion that sounds enough like a cheap microphone (which it may very well be) to give this live set an off-hand feel - as if John Lomax stumbled across the band on a recording expedition. Fans of more raucous electric blues may find this a bit sedate, but there are charms in the band's subtlety. 3-1/2 stars, if allowed fractional ratings. [©2009 hyperbolium dot com]