Whine de Lune

Trailer Bride

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 7, 1999)
• Original Release Date: August 10, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bloodshot Records
• ASIN: B00000JPD4
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #225,581 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Like a hillbilly genie slithering her way through a jukebox of Delta blues and backwoods country, Melissa Swingle puts Chapel Hill, North Carolina's Trailer Bride on her back and carries Whine de Lune, the band's third effort. Swingle's voice is a confident, slurring drawl, and her multi-instrumental arrangements (banjo, mandolin, harmonica, even a saw) are tightly wound around hook-filled pop, slow acoustic waltzes, and bold hints of gospel. With a playful seriousness, Swingle spins tale after Deep South tale of railroads, after-hours dancers, and the simplest of pleasures. And just as she slithers her way back into the bottle, you're bellying up and asking for another shot. --Scott Holter

Product Description
On "Whine De Lune", Trailer Bride have perfected their spooky, stompy, swampy country; the kind of sound that could only come out of North Carolina. With her high-lonesome warble, and trademark slide-guitar mojo, Melissa Swingle sings sweet songs of love, but also delivers the goods to satisfy your sociopath buddies down in the Bloodshot bunker. This time around they add some fresh sounding psychedelic era guitar fuzz, clunky banjos and the requisite creepy saw playing.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply Amazing, September 1, 2003

By	A. Blossman "Trey Blossman/Music Freak" (Mandeville, La. United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I will not bore you with a lot of details, rather let me simply say this:

I own over 10,000 cd's and 1,500 vinyl records. Whine De Lune was my favorite release of 1999 (yes, I think it was the best record released that year).

Trailer Bride's sound is truly unique. I don't think it could be duplicated, but if you wanted to try, do this. In a blender add one scoop Southern Culture on the Skids, one scoop Velvet Underground, one scoop trailer trash and one scoop woman scorned. Blend well, pour and enjoy.

I have seen Trailer Bride and they are awesome.

Rock on Trailer Bride.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spooky alternative country - way off the mainstream, July 30, 2002

By	Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Trailer Bride's sound is described (on their record company website) as spooky, stompy, swampy country of the kind of sound that could only come out of North Carolina. I'm not going to argue with that.

Lead singer Melissa Swingle (who also wrote all the songs) has a very distinctive warbling style. She sings love songs, but there are also songs about snakes and strippers, not exactly your everyday subjects for songs. There have been songs about such matters before - Charley Pride began his career with a song called The snakes crawl at night, while Kenny Rogers did a great song about a stripper (Scarlet fever) on his We've got tonight album, and there are probably others - so there are precedents.

Although this band comes in the category of alt-country, it isn't even like (say) Neko Case or Kelly Hogan's Pine Valley Cosmonauts. Their music, while different from the mainstream, can at least be compared to it, as there are some similarities. This band is not like anything I've ever heard before. Reading the other reviews, it seems to be a universal opinion.

So, you either buy blind as I did (something I usually get away with, because of my eclectic tastes), or you hear enough of their music to be sure this is what you want.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great alt-country, March 5, 2002

By	Jennifer Barger (Falls Church, VA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

My husband says TB sounds like the house band for some country graveyard, and he's got a point. These songs are haunting combos of country, bluegrass and something not altogether defineable. Reminds me a bit of the Mekons, a little of early rootsy bands like the Tarbox Ramblers and a little of nothing else I've ever heard. Definitely worth a listen.