Sir Richard Bishop - Hillbilly Erotica

Sir Richard Bishop returns for a new spon- taneous six-string meshing of people’s music, recollections and psychic intentions. Are y’all ready for some Hillbilly Erotica? Migration from last album’s Ragas to this new Erotica is another chapter in Bish- op’s progress, drifting via songs into the further frontiers of his pappy’s hometown sounds, trancing over and out in their hand-me-down clothes. As with the ragas, the ‘rotica’s hung round the neck of John Fahey’s infamous dubbing of certain tradi- tional American folk sounds as “American Primitive.” A perfectly good thought, but Sir Richard picks his own axe and chose a separate path. Rushing through gutters & picking pickled brains in the saucy head- waters of the down-low & literal American primitive, his hillbilly music is a mash of brined cultural inheritance, mini-ragas and moonshine-drunk savagery breaking out on the frets.

1. Lick Skillet
2. Finger, Tennessee
3. Sweet Lips Spiritual
4. Back Forty Lashes
5. Bride Of Rhythm
6. Methodist
7. Finger Revisited
8. Hookers Bend
9. Postcoital Serenade

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