Push Me Again

LEICHTE GEBRAUCHSSPUREN

FÜR FANS VON Nick Cave; Leonard Cohen; Alex Chilton :Of the hundreds of records I've heard this year, "Push Me Again" by P.W. Long with Reelfoot renewed my hope that there are still unsung heroes out there singing and writing with fervor and soul-searching integrity. With intelligent, witty and sensitive observational talents up there with Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen and Alex Chilton and the downright dirty, funky lyrical musings of Andre Williams or George Clinton, P.W. Long mixes it up like a super-tall, super-strong shot of backwoods moonshine, doused with aching libido and passionate soulfulness, then sets it on fire. Call it roots-rock, punk rock, alt-country, funk, blues, Americana or alternative, but it's inventive rock & roll at its manic-depressive best. Swinging from intense, poignant ballads which highlight his gift for distilling cliche-free emotion, through raucous blues-funk footstomps to a powerful and precise headbanging visit to his punker days in Mule, P.W. Long seems to soak up life experience and an exhaustive record collection, then extract the muse straight through his soul, no filter. This guy obviously plays because he has to, and it's a good thing for music that he does.

Nick Cave; Leonard Cohen; Alex Chilton