Sir Slob by Larry O. Dean

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Quirky | Americana

11 tracks | 53 minutes

Released Apr 2004
on Zenith Beast

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Editorial review

R.E.M. meets Bob Dylan and the two have some beer -- or at least it sounds like that's where Larry O. Dean originated this strange mix of alt-country, folk, and 1960s rock & roll. Dean's unique mixture of American cultural music on Sir Slob is quite nice. For those who enjoy good old-fashioned classic rock-based music, Sir Slob hits the mark. This is a decisive and cohesive recording that seems to bring the landscape of America to life. One can almost picture a guitar player and his backup band singing away the blues of life on some bar's stage somewhere in Middle America. Dean's work is unique, warm, and quite evocative, painting pictures of the world all around us and bringing together the best of an emotionally conscious and roots-based musical recording. Truly though, Dean's music is most reminiscent of Neil Young's collection of 1970s recordings and, in a lot of ways, their styles are very similar, pairing grit and truth with guitars and low, almost pleading vocals. Larry O. Dean has crafted a fine recording, and one that is certainly worthy of attention. ~ Matt Borghi, All Music Guide

Bio / Background

Larry O. Dean was born and raised in the rusty wasteland of Flint, Michigan. With a precocious talent for illustration and writing, he dabbled in comics and underground journalism (working with muckraking journalist and Oscar-winning director, Michael Moore) before being bitten by the musical bug. Inspired by The Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan, The Modern Lovers, Warren Zevon, and iconoclastic proto-punks Wire, XTC, and The Stranglers, he formed his first band in high school and has never looked back.

In San Francisco he found his voice, both as a solo acoustic troubadour and with witty and sardonic avant-pop combos, The Fussbudgets and Malcontent. Steeped in the soul-rock tradition of Big Star, The Flying Burrito Bros., and The dB's, as well as Yo La Tengo's noisy experimentalism and Television's bowery-bred aggression, LOD's songs embrace melodies with lyrics front-and-center, as expected from a widely-published and anthologized as well as award-winning poet.