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SPICEWOOD SEVEN —STILL MAD (Self-Released)

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Maurice Hope – August 2, 2016 at 12:38PM

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Still Mad is the belated follow-up to the Texas band the Spicewood Seven’s debut record Kakistocracy it was a time when America had George Bush in charge and he made himself a good target for songwriters. Through taking up arms against Iraq and everything that went with it.

 

Fronted by songwriter Luke Powers (vocals, guitar) and steel guitar legend Tommy Spurlock (vocals, guitar) with Suzi Ragsdale on harmony vocals, Beau Johnson, Scott Musick and Jimmy Karstein on drums and guest slots from B.C Cummings (bass on “Broke”), Garth Hudson of The Band (bass guitar) and Bob Wills’ Texas Playboy survivor Leon Rausch (vocals) both lend support on “The Magic Bullet”. The song is about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. It along with opening track, “Somewhere” and chugging ballad “Hey Idiot” plus aching love ballad “Broke” as the lyrics speak of how he is broke and can’t be fixed up among the album standouts.

 

Going back to “The Magic Bullet” (complete with great pedal steel and tinkling piano) Leon Rausch for his part sounds amazingly good for his age, and though Spicewood Seven will never bother the mainstream boys, they know how to serve up a solid, stout as an oak rhythm and stick with it (and outshine a great many acts of your mainstream country idiom).   

 

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