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Features Disc of the day
Duster Bennett
The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions
(Columbia, 2005)
One-man band country-blues passion play, from deepest Surrey
My distrust of the blues has already been chronicled at length here and now, after much rumination, I feel I’ve unearthed the source of this deep-rooted prejudice. I bought said album back in 1982; 15 years old and keen to comprehend the revered cornerstones of the British rock ‘canon’. I didn’t get it, and I still don’t. It sounded like a bunch of smug bores lazily riffing through standards with nothing of the passion, fire or chaos I’d foolishly hoped for. ‘Librarian music’, as one of my friends put it. So if I stayed away too long from the blues, I stayed away longer from the British blues revival. Reading the liner notes to this Blue Horizon comp of tracks by ’60s Thames Valley sensation Tony ‘Duster’ Bennett it’s obvious that here was a musician too scruffy for the revival purists. Criticised for being nervous, edgy and excitable, Bennett and his 1952 Gibson Les Paul Gold Top now sound wild, rough, passionate, and sometimes too fast for his own time-keeping. On tracks like Worried Mind, Got A Tongue In Your Head and Jumping At Shadows he captures that thumpingly magical four-track brutalism that Billy Childish and Jack White consider the Holy Grail of authentic rock, all with a twist of Joe Strummer in the vocal. His later, gentler stuff sounds like Pete Molinari, or Graham Coxon. After splitting with Blue Horizon he wound up (like Terry Reid and Donovan) in the interminable red tape of Mickie Most’s RAK label. On March 26 1976 he died in a car crash, after falling asleep at the wheel while on his way home from a gig with Memphis Slim. Eric Clapton is 62.
Andrew Male
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 11/07/2008
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The White Stripes – De Stijl (Sympathy For The Record Industry, 2000)
Wild Billy Childish & The Buff Medways – Medway Wheelers (Damaged Goods, 2005)
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I gave up reading Mojo years ago because, in my opinion, the quality of the journalism and presentation plummeted with the change of editor. The above is an example of how to write a shallow, negative diatribe instead of a useful, informative review. Unfortunately, Andrew Male thinks it is his writing in which people are interested, not the music of Duster Bennett.
Posted by Joh at 1:48 PM GMT 10/03/2009 Report Abuse
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"I gave up reading Mojo years ago"
Odd to find you here, then.
No-one writes in the mag like this. it's a blog. Different style grandad.
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Joh is completely right, whats the grandad for? you are a smarmed up asshole.Phil.
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RE: Konk46
ha ha put your inexperienced young punk ass in its place. huh
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ha ha put your inexperienced young punk ass in its place. huh
konkie boy
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