Cover of Honkeyfinger Invocation Of The Demon Other
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For fans of alternative and raw blues, followers of one-man band projects, listeners who enjoy scott h. biram and butthole surfers, and aficionados of slide guitar and harmonica driven music.
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THE REVIEW

From the Blues Swamps, Honkeyfinger.

The recipe seems to be one of those succulent ones, anti-artsy cut and primordial unruliness. As if to say, from the river delta to the Crack. Tradition is implicitly transformed into reaction, and it is in this silent spatial-temporal change that the stories narrated by the English one-man band unfold.

There is the self-made man who builds colorful yet barren harmonicas, and there is the man who, after his own realization, corrodes them. Honkeyfinger is right in between Scott H. Biram and Butthole Surfers, in that limbo of perdition and crooked abstraction.

A handful of tracks, indeed a few less would have benefited the final evaluation of the work, to describe the scorching alienation from the Moloch of the new millennium. All this without any rhetoric, just slide guitar, kick drum, and harmonica.

In the end, we've all returned more than once to quench our thirst on those shores.

The rhetoric of "they don't make 'em like they used to..."

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Honkeyfinger’s album 'Invocation Of The Demon Other' delivers a raw and primordial blues experience blending tradition with unruliness. The music features slide guitar, kick drum, and harmonica, evoking themes of alienation in the modern era. Positioned stylistically between Scott H. Biram and Butthole Surfers, the album's intense atmosphere might benefit from a more concise tracklist. Overall, it offers an authentic blues journey without any rhetorical embellishment.

Tracklist Videos

01   HonknSkronkn (01:23)

02   Got This Rage (03:17)

03   Margarine Man (03:07)

04   Jitterbone Boogie (00:41)

05   Trouble (03:56)

06   Parchman Farm (02:20)

07   Cobra (01:02)

08   True Believers (04:12)

09   Farmer George (03:55)

10   Fine Thing (05:11)

11   Margarine Man, Part 2 (03:25)

12   Burning Skull Blues (02:45)

13   Boss Honk (00:53)

14   Running on Empty (04:21)

15   Subaquatic Homesick Blues (01:07)

Honkeyfinger

Described in a DeBaser review as an English one-man band blending blues, slide guitar, harmonica and minimal percussion, with a raw, primordial approach.
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