Crookedrain Review

Weeping Willows - JB Nelson

The album opens in a visceral manner, with The Dead Walk the Streets . Sounds like ole JB has OD d on Zen Arcade till the last 30 seconds when the feedback subsides to reveal a few of JB's western hallucinations. Second track is Lonesome over you and it is awesome, the best I've heard this year. Dark, hypnotic and menacing, one of those tracks you stick on repeat while you sharpen the old hatchet and clean the gun. It s beginning to sound like Hank Williams and Al Jourgensen are scoring a David Lynch road movie. And we continue in this vein with Die with Pride and The Deathroom , both good tracks. Take You Down is a cracking revenge tune. A macabre banjo boogie accompanies JBs frankly disturbing lyrics I'm gonna finish this bottle and then I m gonna paint my face.....I m gonna take you down if I cant be with you. She was his woman and she done him wrong, indeed! The well woven prose on JB's site does seem to ring true in one case; his origin. Southwest Scotland is well represented, Sawney Bean and Hairy Tree linking our man to Galloway. Sawney Bean sees Nelson's industrial claustrophobia return and is genuinely creepy. This song along with the atmospheric No More Blood and Hairy Tree (Girvan is one strange place!) forms the core of this work. There s a few mechanised sojourns toward the end which are superfluous, but the refrain from Dead Mans Eyes will still be ringing in your ears as you listen. Nelson has carved a terrific album here. It's the sound of a quaalude cowboy hurtling through hell, and stays with you for a long time. --crookedrain.org.uk

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