Carrboro Dex Romweber SKU: BS240LP Barcode: 0744302024011 18.00 £18.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Bloodshot Released Date: 9th September 2016 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info “Dex Romweber was and is a huge influence on my music…one of the best kept secrets of the rock n roll underground.” – Jack White “An artist who remains one of America’s generally unheralded dusky treasures.” – American Songwriter For nearly 30 years, the name Dex Romweber has been the password to a cool club. It lets the doorman size you up through the slit in the green door that leads to a world where rock and roll is still real… and real, real gone. Dex’s progeny, impacted by his wild and wildly influential work in Flat Duo Jets, his Duo and solo, includes The White Stripes, The Black Keys, The Kills, Man or Astroman? and dozens of other bands that have stripped down, turned up, and cut loose. Songs don’t just come out of Dex, they seem to erupt; there is an unearthly urgency in the singer and the song. There’s no tamping it down, Dex lays it out there every time. But sometimes – in all that mind-blowing sound and energy – the soul often gets overlooked, and Dex is, above all else, a deeply soulful performer. Carrboro, with its cover shot of the railroad tracks that run through his hometown, where on a grey day or a dark night you’d find a young Dex immersing himself in the music of his idols, is his fourth record for Bloodshot (and his first for us a solo artist). Through 13 originals and far-ranging covers, Dex reaches into his steamer trunk of influences and inspirations, and fabricates an enthralling sonic quilt. As Dex describes his approach, “It doesn’t matter to me what genre – if I like a song I might record it.” It’s all different, but all of one piece. On Carrboro, Dex assumes several musical mantles (and uncharacteristically plays all or many of the instruments). There’s the sparse and jumpy hillbilly liveliness of ‘Knock Knock (Who’s That Knockin’ On My Coffin Lid Door?)’ with help from Rick Miller of Southern Culture On The Skids; ‘Lonesome Train,’ originally recorded by Cecilia Batten in nearby Chapel Hill in ’57; and a take on the T. Bone Burnett penned ‘I Don’t Know,’ sung by Ryan Bingham and The Dude for the film Crazy Heart (says Dex: “the lyrics seem to be so much about my own life… damn I just had to record it”). With the fuller sound of the New Romans, a 10-piece Chapel Hill collective, ‘Nightide’ is a Tarantino grind on the surf-deck of the USS Enterprise, while Mahalia Jackson’s ‘Trouble of the World’ throbs with a thrilling apocalyptic gloom. Dex’s last-call crooner persona kicks off the album with a surprising contemporary cover, that of English singer-songwriter Findlay Brown’s ‘I Had A Dream’ (“It affected me deeply personally when I first heard it,” Dex explains). He embraces ‘Smile,’ a Charlie Chaplin tune (yeah, you read that right) and the Jerry Lee Lewis obscurity ‘Tomorrow’s Taking Baby Away’ with Waits-ian levels of resignation and weariness. And no Dex Romweber record is complete without some instrumental wizardry. There’s the tiki surf of ‘Midnight at Vic’s’ and the sunset dreamscape of ‘Out of the Way.’ He even turns ‘My Funny Valentine,’ the Rodgers and Hart Broadway chestnut from the 1930s into the soundtrack to a ghostly roller rink murder caper. In the end, the album plays like the jukebox at the full service honky-tonk saloon, jazz club, Tin Pan Alley pitch house, and blues joint along the tracks. Get off at the Carrboro station. Artist Dex Romweber Genre Americana / Country Label Bloodshot Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings 1.I Had a Dream 2.Lonesome Train 3.Nightide 4.Tomorrow's Taking My Baby Away 5.Trouble of the World 6.My Funny Valentine 7.I Don't Know 8.Where Do You Roam 9.Smile 10.Knock Knock 11.Midnight at Vic's 12.Out of the Way 13.Tell Me Why I Do Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Americana / Country View Product Quick View Gene Clark and Doug Dillard Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark (SACD) Americana / Country | Intervention Records | SACD Released 2nd December 2022 £42.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Gene Clark and Doug Dillard Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark (SACD) £42.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Intervention Records SKU: IR-SCD17 Formats: SACD Released Date: 2nd December 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Cory Branan Mutt Americana / Country | Bloodshot | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 23rd August 2012 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Cory Branan Mutt £18.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Bloodshot SKU: BS195LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 23rd August 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Derek Trucks Band Joyful Noise Americana / Country | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 12th July 2016 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Derek Trucks Band Joyful Noise £28.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP1396 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 12th July 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ward Thomas Cartwheels Americana / Country | Sony Music | 2LP Released 26th August 2016 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ward Thomas Cartwheels £21.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Sony Music SKU: 88985338781 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 26th August 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Brittney Spencer My Stupid Life Americana / Country | Parlophone | 1LP Released 19th January 2024 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Brittney Spencer My Stupid Life £28.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Parlophone SKU: 0075678612855 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 19th January 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Billy Strings Me/and/Dad Americana / Country | Concord | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 18th November 2022 £26.00 - £30.00 Select options Billy Strings Me/and/Dad £26.00 - £30.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Concord Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 18th November 2022 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Tony Joe White Live From Austin, TX Americana / Country | New West | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 20th January 2023 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Tony Joe White Live From Austin, TX £25.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: New West SKU: LPNW5662C Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 20th January 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Shires, The Good Years Americana / Country | BMG | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 13th March 2020 £19.00 Select options Shires, The Good Years £19.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: BMG Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 13th March 2020 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Charlie Parr Stumpjumper Americana / Country | Red House | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 27th April 2015 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Charlie Parr Stumpjumper £18.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Red House SKU: RHRLP283 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 27th April 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Israel Nash Israel Nash’s Silver Season Americana / Country | Loose Music | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 9th October 2015 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Israel Nash Israel Nash’s Silver Season £22.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Loose Music SKU: VJLP226 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 9th October 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Americana / Country Start again
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