14 September, 2017
08 September, 2017
Arlo Mckinley & The Loneseome Sound
Arlo McKinley & The Lonesome Sound
Review by: Moose
In the fall of 2011 Tim Carr put together a band with some friends and throughout the past three years members have often changed, but lucky for us he has found what works. Arlo McKinley is there name, and it was more or less taken from Tim's two grandfather's Arlo and McKinley. Enlisting the help of Tyler Lockard on upright bass, and Brian Pumphrey on drums they have found themselves at a most inopportune time to record an album. After a tribute show in December for Hank Williams Tim Carr and Kelly Thomas had a conversation about recording an album, and on a snowy day in February upstairs at the new Southgate House the recording was beginning. With Tyler on upright, Brian on drums, and some help from Sarah Davis on keys and vocals, Sylvia Mitchell on viola, harmonica, and a truly lonesome violin, last but certainly not least Zach Rowe who plays adds an electric guitar that is swampy but keeps within the country style at the core of this band. Over six hours they hammered these songs out and while that may sound fast, the album by no means does not have that feeling.
The record from start to finish is good old country blues. Tim's vocals and songwriting shine through the melodies and arrangements of these good old fashioned country songs. The opening track "I've Got Her" opens with a harmonica that brings a chill, then the electric guitar brings it flavor, and with Tim's vocal rounding it all out brings the opening of this album to a start. Sit back and listen and let the songs swim around through your mind because the album has only just begun. The melodies and arrangements blend eloquently into a melodic sea of some heart break and just some good old fashioned country. Tim told me recently that "the main reason I write music is to tell my story to whoever wants to listen, and I honestly believe it is what I was put here to do." Through those next nine tracks his reasoning becomes more clear.
This album is merely a starting point for these folks who have a brought a breath of fresh air to country music, and just music in general. "Time in Bars" is a song on the album and in that song Tim sings a lyric "I've got a story to tell," and its all there. It is all laid out in for the listener to simply, if anything, appreciate some damn good songwriting. Arlo McKinley and The Lonesome Sound are bringing to us an album that breathes something new into the music world. That new is songwriting and the music in general is the catalyst to tell this story.
Arlo McKinley and The Lonesome Sound will be releasing their album "Arlo McKinley & The Lonesome Sound" in the very place they recorded the album just a few months ago. They will be at The Southgate House Revival upstairs in the Revival Room where over six hours they struck that humble chord that lives inside all of us, and especially them and that chord has been unleashed and now its time to watch these folks shine. If you find yourself in Newport on Saturday head on over to the Southgate House: Revival and go upstairs to simply listen to a man tell a story through some songs.
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