Country Comfort
By Craig Havighurst
Music City Roots
I hope everyone enjoyed Delta Moon as much as I did. It’s a simple band
with a simple plan, perfectly executed. Tom Gray and Mark Johnson both
play slide guitar, the former overhand on electric lap steel and the
latter underhand on a standard guitar with a bottleneck. On my planet,
taste, tone and time are the three musical commandments (“thou shalt put
heavy emphasis on…) and they were all about it. The razor sharp rhythm
section of drummer Darren Stanley and bassist Franher Joseph laid out
the grid, and the twin guitars filled it in with interwoven lines and
fuzzy drones that evoked a trance-like state. It was close-your-eyes and
float-on-the-groove music. And the lyrics of songs such as “Black Cat
Oil” and “Hellbound Train,” sung in a distressed leather voice by Tom
Gray, conjured a misty and forbidden world. True grit, these guys.
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