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Low Tar Taste by Gerald Collier
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fave it Traditional Country | Americana
5 tracks | 20 minutes
Released Apr 2005
on I Dreamt I Bought The Farm Music
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Dark country music with a soulful voice, Gerald Collier creates sad, crying-in-your-beer tales you want to sing along to.
Editorial review
Among Gerald Collier's work, no effort discloses his talents for songmanship like the EP-length Low Tar Taste. Though Collier the pop artist has a delicious knack for deviating from the mainstream, this collection can only be described as full-on country. Bold and shimmering acoustic guitars, weeping, leaning pedal steels, and gritty drum-basslines drive the songs in a satisfying, clear production style comparable to Dwight Yoakam. The infectious melodies, cut to flush perfection, are often accented by vintage tremolo guitars, banjos, or a Willie Nelson-style electric, earnest and unapologetic. Collier himself brings to mind the weathered boyishness of Gram Parsons, in lyric and in voice: No matter how many times he travels "down that road and back," he'll always be vulnerable, and his own worst enemy -- though it's invariably the love of woman that rules or ruins him. The lyrics are clever and narrative, borrowing that touch of facetiousness that reaches clear back to Hank Williams, despite the self-pitying persona he sets forth. The sobering "Still Your Fool," draped all in sad fiddle, lands hard on the downbeats -- even the mandolin, normally a brightening instrument, is weighted with lethargy, as it seems to pluck in half time against Collier's pleas of defeat and hopeless attachment. Throughout, Collier revisits the theme of long-distance love (gone awry). However, the final track departs into downright comedy, as the lovelorn anti-hero finds himself pitted against the atrocities of an aged prostitute, complete with irreverent fiddles plucking on the upbeat. An accomplished, incredibly tight set of music, with no loose ends, and hardly room for doubt. ~ Lisa M. Smith, All Music Guide
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"Similarly impressive is Gerald Collier, whose Breakin' Down pits lonesome highway moan against spiky country-rockisms, silver threaded with ex-American Music Clubber Bruce Kaphan's pedal-steel." - Uncut
"Gerald Collier, once again, wins the Most Underrated Artist of the Year award."
- Clink Magazine
"Gerald's gift for memorable melodies helps his often-bitter lyrics go down smoothly, and many of the songs here rank with his best." - Don Yates, KEXP Seattle
"...Collier can write a song and has a band which does not mess about. This is country-rock in the sense that it's country music played with a tough small-group rock feel - nothing loungey-postmodern going on at all. And Collier's subject matter is the breakdown of the heart, observed with a nasty psycho-anatomical rigour. "Tell Me Why (You Are So Cold)" is a bitterly observed vignette of the aftermath of love and how it - the aftermath - drags on until it smears.
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