Friday, September 11, 2015

Luxuriant Sedans - Born Certified

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:26
Size: 131.5 MB
Styles: Blues rock
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[5:14] 1. Stay Out Of Automobiles
[5:23] 2. Got To Keep Moving
[2:46] 3. Shake It
[6:07] 4. Cold Turkey
[5:10] 5. I Went Down
[3:12] 6. Wezo Needs A Shot
[3:54] 7. My Baby's Gone
[4:07] 8. My Back Scratcher
[5:04] 9. Cold Day In Hell
[3:34] 10. Willie
[4:06] 11. Prison Of Love
[5:06] 12. I Can't Sleep
[3:40] 13. Rooster Blood

What a journey. We have laughed. We have cried. We might have groused a time or two. But the music ALWAYS carried us forward. And now, it is out there, making its way in the world, and we couldn't be more proud.

"Born Certified" is more than a random collection of songs. It is a deliberate reaction and response to the state of modern music. This album serves as an antidote to the avalanche of laptop records now muddying the charts and airwaves. It was recorded in a real studio - a cathedral of sound, if you please - with a bonafide producer (Mark Williams). It was recorded live, including vocals, with minimal overdubs and fixes. You can hear the room. You can can hear the interaction of the musicians. Real music, made by real musicians, for real people. And it must be noted, in this age of Auto Tuned, fix-it-in-the mix vocals, that the Sedans' Mike "Wezo" Wesolowski not only sang live as the band played, he nailed his vocals with scary soul and precision. Of 13 songs, he recut one vocal track. No auto tune was used. What you hear is what he sang - and it is mightily impressive. The band served each song, not ego. The guitar playing of Rob Slater and Gino "Woo Funk" Grandinetti is a marvel. Each solo climbs to extraordinary peaks with purpose and passion. There is no noodling, no "look at me" displays of ego. Just playing from the heart with an ear for space.

Born Certified

4 comments:

Ramirez said...

GREAT album! very good harp en strong vocals; the rhythm boys are rockin the blues and the guitar men play very well together!

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Geoff said...

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