San Francisco’s Hot Buttered Rum has been at it for just about two decades now, and on this, their sixth album, the bluegrass and folk five-piece brings us 13 tracks of energetic, layered, dual vocal fun. On hand are plenty of guest vocalists, too, including members of ALO, among others. <\/p>\n
The first tune \u201cYou Can Tell\u201d puts their fiddle acrobatics on display with the upbeat, soulful bluegrass rocker and \u201cSittin’ Here Alone\u201d follows with a similar warmth, though a bit slower and with background vocals to complement the fun. \u201cCountry Tunes & Love Songs\u201d is one of two tracks here with some all-star help, and on this one The Coffis Bros. bring their harmonizing pipes to the more intimate, introspective atmosphere. That carries over into the sparse balladry of \u201cHow Short The Song.\u201d<\/p>\n
The middle of the album delivers more gems with the dobro friendly \u201cTreasure Island Blues,\u201d which certainly has a blues feel against harmony that the violins contribute to, and the lightning quick pace of \u201cNever Got Married,\u201d which is one of the best track here. \u201cThe Spirits Still Come\u201d is another collaboration, this time with the Rainbow Girls, who provide breathy backing vocals to a more haunting selection. The following \u201cLeaving Dallas\u201d is another darker moment with an enormous amount of beauty. <\/p>\n
The last few songs get playful and even more memorable, especially with the brushed percussion and fiddle solos of \u201cWhen That Lonesome Feeling Comes.\u201d The album exits with \u201cThe Deep End,\u201d where Dan Lebowitz and Zach Gill, both of ALO, lend their guitar, vocal, and keyboard talents to a calm and groove-filled funk atmosphere.<\/p>\n
Similar bands to Hot Buttered Rum are hard to pinpoint, but Hot Buttered Rum does admit that they have \u201cthe memory of Tom Petty Whispering in our ears.\u201d Probably best described as a tangling of jam, country, folk, and bluegrass that results in a timeless energy and easily enjoyable spirit, this is a criminally underappreciated outfit and a fantastic album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":33542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[10216],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-45363","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-hot-buttered-rum","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45363"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45363"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}