BOB DRAKE: Bob’s Drive In

Jul 232014

A set of twisty, forty-ideas-a-minute, niftily arranged, irredeemably eccentric, but strangely brilliant songs that skip blithely across genre borders – from Nashville through the Miskatonic by way of the Beach Boys… even the production values range across the history of recording, sometimes switching inside a single song; so it’s a high-information ride – but still engagingly listenable. So far so good: another crafted, dense, idiosyncratic studio album. Now comes the twist. Finished with his versions, Bob now sends the raw songs – melody and chords only – to Dave Kerman (ds), David Campbell (bs, vc) and Kavus Torabi (guit, vc) and, a few months later, they all assemble at the Crumbling Tomes studio to work the songs up for a performance. Bob is in the band but the band is not being taught his interpretations and arrangements; it has to find its own. At the end of the rehearsal they give a show to an invited audience which is recorded, as it is. So now we have a second great album – quite different from Bob’s own. On the CD, both versions sit side-by-side, each very different, but still very closely linked to the other. Fun to listen to as well as being a study, if you are so inclined. That’s experimental. DOWNLOAD WHOLE ALBUM: MP3 – £6.99 FLAC – £9.99 File Type : Buy album as CD (£12.50 POST FREE)		TRACK PRICE: MP3: £0.70p\|FLAC: £1.00
		1. Keep Light Away From This Product	`listen:` - :
		2. Recreational Guide to the Solar System for Humans	`listen:` - :
		3. Don’t Ask a Cat	`listen:` - :
		4. Pardon My Varmit	`listen:` - :
		5. Sad and Indifferent Animals Wearing Scarves	`listen:` - :
		6. Lesser-Known Explorers of the Arctic	`listen:` - :
		7. Everybody Wants to Meet My Racoon	`listen:` - :
		8. Earthquake Lights	`listen:` - :
		9. Phantom Forerunner	`listen:` - :
		10. A Sunny Day in Nairobi	`listen:` - :
		11. Swimming Pool	`listen:` - :
		12. Gone Gone Gone	`listen:` - :
		13. Biting of Glory	`listen:` - :
		14. Some Advice About Zombis	`listen:` - :
		15. A Sunny Day in Nairobi (live)	`listen:` - :
		16. Earthquake Lights (live)	`listen:` - :
		17. Don’t Ask a Cat (live)	`listen:` - :
		18. Lesser-Known Explorers of the Arctic (live)	`listen:` - :
		19. Some Advice About Zombis (live)	`listen:` - :
		20. Sad and Indifferent Animals Wearing Scarves (live)	`listen:` - :
		21. Pardon My Varmit (live)	`listen:` - :
		22. Everybody Wants to Meet My Racoon (live)	`listen:` - :
		23. Keep Light Away From This Product (live)	`listen:` - :
		24. Recreational Guide to the Solar System for Humans (live)	`listen:` - :
		25. Biting of Glory (live)	`listen:` - :