Duelling Banjos? Or a metaphor-filled serenade, weighted down by the familiarity of a vaguely exotic tune? Alabama psychobilly DAN SARTAIN'S 'Flight Of The Finch' is fiddle un-happy, and as shrouded with mystery as it is drenched in rockabilly guitar.
Almost a semi-acoustic tango, it plays on what is already a part of our collective consciousness, evoking all kinds of mental imagery to its acid-Everlies swing. It's all devoted mournfully to the weaknesses of the heart, and the reasons for infidelity, a sure fire winner from beginning to end.
Like the reverse, a version of the standard 'Besame Mucho' (all guitar harmonics, Mafia strings and blaring trumpets), the track is taken from the already-released long-player, 'Join Dan Sartain'. Both tracks play intelligently and effectively on convention without ever sounding conventional, and that is the huge appeal. Intriguing, and oddly memorable, in a Gene Vincent sort of a way (it could also be described as deja vu set to double bass)- this is revealing storytelling of the highest order.
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Dan Sartain is touring the UK between Feb 1-8, supported by fellow Alabama scene-heads TWO TEARS, and PLATE SIX, who feature Dan's bassist David Hickox. If you are in the vicinity, you may well regret not giving this unlikely hero a fair hearing.
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