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DAN SARTAIN Join Dan Sartain Swami/One Little Indian __________________________________________________ |
 It's
all too rare these days when praise dished out by the NME turns out to be
well-deserved, but this is the case with this young 24-year-old Alabama
man with his Cursory
comparisons to Johnny Cash just don't walk the line, boss, though on
recent single Replacement Man it could easily have been the ghost of the
man in black duetting with Chris Isaac in backwoods bar-rooms where bikers
fear to tread. But
Hangers On, Gun vs. Knife and I Wanted It So are tough, leather-backed,
hoof-hitters from the back of the class at Jon Spencer's school of
scandalous skiffle, built on blocks of Duane Eddy guitar twangs that
resonate round the Grand Canyon sized crater it’s just cleaved into your
grey matter. Meanwhile, down on the corner Leonard Cohen would surely shed
a prayer bead for ‘Young Girls’, whilst cursorily fighting off Morrissey
with a well-aired verb .His
prickly persona of ready anytime street-fighting man belies his boy-scout
two twigs and no campfire looks, yet, one who can Cash-like put a knowing
glint in a young girl's eye with the indelible charm of the ever innocent,
inveterate party pirate, Sartain could be the wild younger brother of our
own Richard Hawley, just from a badlands border towns that air boleros for
breakfast before barn-dancing their, or more likely, your, brains
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- Stu Gibson |