Wood & Waste

Writerly Taste & Crossover Vision Forms Decadent LP by Spirituals/Blues Guitarist Novelists famously use their day jobs for material?guitarist Tom Rodwell mines his crossover blues career with a writerly taste for the surreal on Wood & Waste, a decadent and charmingly outr? collection. Wood & Waste is what used to be called a cult record - a set of warmly anarchic influences and timeworn qualities that is Tom Rodwell?s trademark. His songs resemble ragged short stories, cobbled-together genres from an alternate history. ?The aim is to locate each song in a very specific room of its own, with contrasting feels like layers of paint or old wallpaper.? The album?s centrepiece is ?She Got Me Boiling?, a juggernaut of psychedelic calypso welded to mindless riffs on cannibalism that would make the Mighty Sparrow blush. Driven by a bass-heavy guitar pulse and animated carnival drums, it?s a fiendishly irresistible piece of music, as is the absurdist one-chord freak-out ?Touch Me Like a Teddybear?, featuring NZ free improv notorieties Jeff Henderson and Chris O?Connor on drums. Improvisation is a key theme of Wood & Waste, where frequently a skeletal idea transforms into a fleshy dance rhythm. ?Keep on Knockin?? subverts a determined Bo Diddley beat with dissonant Mellotron in praise of Edward Hopper and William Morris. ?Plenty Time? is a species of prog rhumba set in Roman Britain, indebted to Nigerian giant King Sunny Ade. An English artist moored in New Zealand, Rodwell?s revival o

Tracks

1~1~Keep On Knockin?
1~2~Plenty Time
1~3~Carry On
1~4~Touch Me Like A Teddybear
1~5~She Got Me Boiling
1~6~Small Town
1~7~Make Believe
1~8~Dead End Road

Details

Format: Vinyl LP
Artist: Tom Rodwell
Release Date: 22 October 2021
Genre: Blues
Label: FIREPLACE RECORDINGS
Distributor: Rocket Group