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Misplaced Desire by Ben Ratliff
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fave it Americana | Roots Rock
5 tracks | 19 minutes
Released Nov 2003
on Mother's Discontent Music
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Hard-driving roots-based Americana from the lost highway.
Bio / Background
Ben Ratliff's EP "Misplaced Desire" is a double-barrelled blues shotgun, powered equally by Ratliff's icy baritone vocals and his and Jeff Winter's chunky guitar riffs, with support from a solid rhythm section and production that strikes a good balance between clean and moody.
Ratliff's raw, rootsy sound comes out of city and country blues traditions, but the songwriting takes in other forms, from the heavy-metal drawl of "Leviathan" - an apocalyptic indictment of the Bush oiligopoly - to the bluesy tango of the closer "You Never Miss:"
You were trouble, I might have guessed
A Jezebel in a cocktail dress...
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