Somewhere Beneath These Southern Skies

by The Dirty Guv'nahs

Overview

Knoxville, Tennessee's the Dirty Guv'nahs have a classic Southern rock feel that sounds a lot like the Black Crowes, or maybe the Rolling Stones, if the Stones had stopped dead at Exile on Main St. That throwback Southern sound, which the Guv'nahs do really well, is both a blessing and a curse on the band's third album and first national release, Somewhere Beneath These Southern Skies. The best of the songs here, like the joyous opener, "Can You Feel It," the, well, charming "Good Luck Charm," and the solid "Temptation," sound almost frozen out of time, like prized outtakes from some long lost Stones or Black Crowes album project, and with lead singer James Trimble's soulful, emotional vocal approach, they'd fit right in to the set list of either of those earlier bands. Not that the Dirty Guv'nahs are a nostalgia act, or a tribute band, but a kind of facsimile frozen in a bottle out of time in the 21st century, representing and re-creating a classic Southern rock sound without expanding it or taking it anywhere new. Again, that's both good news on Somewhere Beneath These Southern Skies, and it's bad news. The good songs are timeless facsimiles that float out of another era's memory, while the rest of the album's tracks, while well built, recorded, and sung, seem like forgettable, hazy cliches from 30 years ago. The Dirty Guv'nahs are a good band, and they're dynamite live, but perhaps they need to take what they do so well and take a sharp left turn with it into some truly new and original territory. They have the chops to do it. ~ Steve Leggett

Product Details

Release Date:	08/14/2012
Label:	Dualtone Music
UPC:	0803020161429
Rank:	84227

Tracks

1. Can You Feel It
2. Don't Give Up on Me
3. Good Luck Charm
4. Temptation
5. Honey You
6. Live Forever
7. 3000 Miles
8. This Is My Heart
9. Fairlane
10. Lead Kindly Light
11. Dear Alice
12. Child
13. Goodnight Chicago
14. One Dance Left

Album Credits

Performance Credits

The Dirty Guv'nahs   Primary Artist
Mike Haynes   Trumpet
Chris Doody   Organ,Vocals,Keyboards
Aaron Hoskins   Drums
Michael Jenkins   Guitar
Cozmo Holloway   Guitar
Justin Hoskins   Bass
Roy Agee   Trombone
Jeff Coffin   Saxophone
James Trimble   Vocals

Technical Credits

Ross Copperman   Producer
Chris Doody   Composer,Group Member
Aaron Hoskins   Composer,Group Member
Michael Jenkins   Composer,Group Member,Assistant Producer
James Trimble   Composer,Group Member
Cozmo Holloway   Group Member
Justin Hoskins   Composer,Group Member
Shawn Poynter   Cover Photo
Wade Rackley   Photography
Richard Dodd   Mastering
Richie Biggs   Mixing,Engineer
Jeff Coffin   Horn Arrangements