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Dad Horse is one crazed German who manages to infuse songs of praise with the lowdown blues of T-Model Ford as played by some country/rock lunatic like Hasil Adkins or the Legendary Stardus Cowboy. "Too Close to Heaven" is strange territory indeed.
*I love any album where the harmonica parts have been replaced by KAZOO. There may only be one, and this is it, so I love this CD.*
Dad's take on singing the gospel is a trippy one. On the first track, "Through the Hole", he implores me to dig a hole through my soul so that I can have a "subway for my loving god". I have *NO IDEA WHAT THIS MEANS*, it sounds both spiritual and absolutely filthy. I approve.
How many other religious based singers toss off "motherfucker" occasionally? How many would write a song as oddly blood-thristy has "Lord Must Fix My Soul", where-in the narrator's list of sins is both icky and hilarious?
I know what you're thinking: The Great Johnny Cash wrote many a song of redemption and many a funny song. But Johnny's songs didn't usually put both together, and even "Cocaine Blues" didn't get as weird and rough the work of Dad Horse.
Johnny Cash may have written prison songs, but Dad Horse writes death row songs.
Another great release from Devil's Ruin Records.
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The Dad Horse Experience:
http://dad-horse-experience.com/
Devil's Ruin Records:
http://www.devilsruinrecords.com/
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