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Dopo il blues-rock degli Shiva Burlesque (che consiglio di procurarsi), il cantante chitarrista Grant Lee Phillips forma i Grant Lee Buffalo a Los Angeles e nel 1993 esce questo ottimo album: Fuzzy. Esordio da incorniciare che sfiora i confini tra folk e rock, ma soprattutto tocca direttamente il cuore dell'ascoltatore al di la di ogni genere musicale.
La prima cosa che mi ha colpito è l'intensità e il timbro della voce di Grant che è riuscito a trasmettermi delle sensazioni piacevoli gia' al primo ascolto. Ci sono canzoni di pregevole fattura ma è l'atmosfera che si respira a dare all'album un impatto unico che di certo non rivoluziona la storia del rock ma sicuramente riesce a essere spontaneo ed emozionante con semplici ballate. Con "The Shining Hour" si torna a respirare la swing anni 50' ma già dalla seconda traccia il pop-folk prende il sopravvento con ritornelli tanto intensi quanto orecchiabili. Un mix di accordi acustici e cadenze rock elettriche dipingono "Jupiter And Teardrop", la struggente "fuzzy" (la mia preferita), "Wish You Well" e la trasognante delicata e sottile ballata di "The Hook" in un crescendo di espressività melodica veramente apprezzabile. Se gran parte dell'album rischia di assomigliare ha un trattato folk post-Dylaniano e segna un ritorno alla musica pop-acustica, sorprendono composizioni dove si lascia più spazio ad atmosfere rarefatte come in "Stars N' Stripes" o addirittura si giunge ad un stato di delirio psichedelico alla Velvet Underground in "Grace". Chiude il lento voodoo di "Dixie Drug Store" con accenti alla Lou Reed.
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02 Jupiter and Teardrop (05:57)
Just a girl who can't say no
And her sweetheart on parole
Parents named her Jupiter
To bless her with a lucky soul
He's a boy who never cried
When they locked him up inside
And she nicknamed him her teardrop
For the tattoo by his eye
Now she's sleeping in her bed
And he's sleeping in her bed
And it's Jupiter and Teardrop
And it's Jupiter and Teardrop
She divines by radio
Pushing buttons show to show
And she wonders 'bout the fate of
Lovers in the barrio
She forgets after a while
When she tunes in on the dial
Jackie Wilson's Lonely Teardrops
And she drives another mile
Now she's sleeping in her bed
And he's sleeping in her bed
And it's Jupiter and Teardrop
And it's Jupiter and Teardrop
And it's Jupiter and Teardrop
And they want to have a child
Walk together down the aisle
But the world they live in is mean
And it's built on sheer denial
The phone rings it's for her
Got to see ya Jupiter
I'm in trouble with the law
Bring my 38 caliber
Now she's sleeping in her bed
As she pulls the phone plug dead dead
And it's Jupiter and Teardrop
And it's Jupiter and Teardrop
And it's Jupiter and Teardrop oh
And it's Jupiter and Teardrop
And it's Jupiter and Tear oh
And it's Jupiter and Tear
Oh oh
Ooh ooh ooh
03 Fuzzy (04:59)
Bring me home
To this house of many days
Just lay me on the floor
Hard and cool as slate
You know I love it more and more
Than before I ran away
It triggers off so many hurts
Hurtful words and broken plates
I've been lied to
Now I'm Fuzzy
I've been lied to
All and all
The world is small enough for both of us
To meet upon the interstate
Waiting on a train
And just when those big arms lift up
Fall in love with no time to say it
And I would have liked to
Now I'm Fuzzy
I would have liked to
Now I'm Fuzzy
Fuzzy now
Here we are
In our car
Driving down the street
We're looking for a place to stop
Have a bite to eat
We hunger for a bit of faith
To replace the fear
We water like a dead bouquet
Does no good does it dear
And I've been lied to
Now I'm Fuzzy
We've been lied to
Now we're Fuzzy
Fuzzy now
Lied to.
09 America Snoring (03:40)
I hear you America snoring
I hear you America snoring
Did ya see it on TV
Or in your own backyard
Gate's LAPD
And they called The National Guard
Then the tanks came rolling down
Sunset Boulevard
And I hear America snoring
They want ta' legislate the moon
They want ta' legislate the womb
They wanna legislate all the things they hate
They want ta' legislate this tune
And I hear America snoring snoring
I hear you America snoring snoring
Give wind time to blow
The rooster to crow
Plug my ears but I hear
America
Oh oh oh
See the shoemaker and his shoes
Sliver needle thread and glue
He's closing up the shop
Move it all to Timbuktu
Where the labor force is cheap
And the rivers there run deep
But I hear America snoring
I hear you America snoring snoring America
I hear you America snoring snoring America
I hear
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Di Ginger Drummer
Il disco si apre con "The Shining Hour", splendida e trascinante rock song intrisa di blues fino al midollo.
Undici perle di rara bellezza che compongono uno degli album più belli usciti nel corso degli anni novanta.
