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“What this howling mess of blues, garage, and punk lacks in fidelity and variety is made up for in swaggering attitude – which is really all that matters. Also, no winking Blues Explosion irony: Red Top may actually mean it.” - Bill Frost
Red Top Wolverine Show
Sloppy Jalopy
Rev 313
Street: 11/06
Red Top Wolverine Show = Rolling Stones + Dead Boys + T. Model Ford
These hell stomping garage blues boys and a girl attack with their music, but they keep it bluesy enough to make it refreshing. Most “Garage Blues Bands” have more garage than blues, but Red Top has really made it a fun blistering mixture. The level of craftsmanship on this record is non-existent, and it takes a lot to sound this good and play that terribly. Sloppy Jalopy really stands out. There’s a sincere quality to this blues based rock n’ roll that lets you know that Red Top Wolverine does exactly what they want with their music. This band and others like the Legendary Porch Pounders have really developed the blues scene in Salt Lake and I am excited to see where they go next. This record showcases RTWS enjoying the hell outta making great music.
- James Orme
Discography
Sloppy Jalopy(2006). rev313 records. LP.
Live at Ego's (2006). www.libsyn.com/rtws. podcast.
Several of the songs from Sloppy Jalopy have received airplay on KRCL 90.9 FM in Salt Lake City.
Photos
Feeling a bit camera shy
Bio
The Red Top Wolverine Show played its first show as a country blues duo in the fall of 2004. The two original members of the band, Shoeless and Bucket, played a mix of songs whose original composers have long been forgotten, with the odd Buck Owens cover or original song thrown in. The group gathered a small following based largely on their use of junkyard percussion instruments a five gallon plastic bucket, a wooden pallet, an aluminum trash can, and an upside down rubber waste basket in conjunction with more traditional guitar and harmonica.
Sometime during the next spring two pieces became three when the boys met a sordid character named Frisco and recruited him to play bass. This was no ordinary bass it was made from a single piece of orange weed whacker line strung between the top of a broomstick and the bottom of a zinc wash tub.
Late in the summer of the next year Shoeless heard some racket coming from the house next door and went over to check it out. He found a drummer and a guitar player the last remnants of a short lived Salt Lake punk band called Twelve State Killing Spree. Soon Frisco and Shoeless started playing much a harder version of the Wolverine Shows music with these two just scratching an itch with Frisco playing a bonafied four string electric bass.
A decision was made. The drummer, a squeaky little guy named Jailbait, and the guitarist, later called Corn Chip were asked to join the Wolverine Show .
Soon thereafter, Frisco disappeared under mysterious circumstances behind the Chevron on Foothill at I-80, and Corn Chip was forced to switch over to electric bass. Old Man Stanley reluctantly left his post as fan club president to play junkyard percussion full time.
An album was recorded. They called it Sloppy Jalopy.
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