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 Chris Hillman Bidin’ My Time Americana / Country | Rounder | 1LP Released 22nd September 2017 £27.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Chris Hillman Bidin’ My Time £27.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Rounder SKU: 1166100250 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 22nd September 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jeff Tweedy Together At Last – RSD Stores Exclusive Americana / Country | dBpm Records | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 23rd June 2017 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jeff Tweedy Together At Last – RSD Stores Exclusive £19.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: dBpm Records SKU: 8714092753431 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 23rd June 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Allman Betts Band, The Down To The River Americana / Country | BMG Rights Management | 2LP Released 17th July 2020 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Allman Betts Band, The Down To The River £20.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: BMG Rights Management SKU: 4050538562231 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 17th July 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sarah Shook & The Devil Seven Americana / Country | Bloodshot | 1LP Released 22nd January 2021 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sarah Shook & The Devil Seven £17.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Bloodshot SKU: BS724LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 22nd January 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Randy Travis Storms Of Life Americana / Country | Warner Bros | 1LP, 200g Released 23rd October 2011 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Randy Travis Storms Of Life £21.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Warner Bros SKU: AWRN25435 Formats: 1LP, 200g Released Date: 23rd October 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Dead South, The Served Live Americana / Country | Six Shooter Records | 2LP Released 29th January 2021 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Dead South, The Served Live £23.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Six Shooter Records SKU: SIXLP144 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 29th January 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jim Ford Harlan County Americana / Country | Light In The Attic | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 12th December 2018 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jim Ford Harlan County £24.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Light In The Attic SKU: LITA068LP Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 12th December 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Matt's picks View Product Quick View Courtney Marie Andrews Old Flowers Americana / Country | Loose Music | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 24th July 2020 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Courtney Marie Andrews Old Flowers £18.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Loose Music SKU: VJLP257 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 24th July 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View George Jackson Hair & Hide Americana / Country | GEORGE JACKSON MUSIC | 1LP Released 18th February 2022 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders George Jackson Hair & Hide £18.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: GEORGE JACKSON MUSIC SKU: GJMLP02 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 18th February 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Israel Nash Lifted Americana / Country | Loose Music | 1LP Released 20th July 2018 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Israel Nash Lifted £17.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Loose Music SKU: VJLP241 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 20th July 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Americana / Country Start again
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