Review: Whoah, Dockery Dawgs BLUES!!!!!!!

Subject: Review: Whoah, Dockery Dawgs BLUES!!!!!!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Mar 03 - 03:55 PM

I guess they know all about this at Tweedboard, but I just got to hear this (courtesy of Hippie Chick).... she says it's their first CD but I think she's a damn' LIAR! It's way to good to be their first!

O wise ones (who've gone before me in hearing this CD), speak your wisdom! Dost Chick lie, or be she telling truth?

~Susan

Subject: RE: Review: Whoah, Dockery Dawgs BLUES!!!!!!!
From: Bobert
Date: 09 Mar 03 - 09:07 AM

Yeah, Johnnie and Bacon *be* da *mans*. Yeap, WYSIWYG, Johnnie has beeen a regular Tweezerin since the Tweedsburg was established three years ago this coming Septemeber and Iz here to tell ya' that, as fas as I know, this is the first real CD for the Dawgs. Nice thing about being a member of the 'burg is them little spiffs. Johnnie sent all of us a copy of the CD and Iz here to say that this CD rocks.

Now, for anyone interested in tunneling into the joint, I don't do no blue clicky stuff but maybe the Hippie Chick will do one here. Anyway, stop on by and say "Hey", but bring your own lawn chair and cooler,

www.tweedsblues.net

Bobert

Subject: RE: Review: Whoah, Dockery Dawgs BLUES!!!!!!!
From: Tweed
Date: 09 Mar 03 - 09:34 AM

Them Dawgs will Run! Yep, the Norwegians have got a handle on the blues. Here's a page with the collected reviews of the Tweedizens after they got their copies of "Moan".
Dockery Dawgs az reviewed by the Inmates.
ElkHoundDog Johnny tells us that they're beginning work on a second record and hope to get it out next year.

Yerz,
Tweed

Subject: RE: Review: Whoah, Dockery Dawgs BLUES!!!!!!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Mar 03 - 12:56 PM

I can only add, it is F***ING EXCELLENT. Buy, buy, buy.

Really!!!

~S~

Subject: RE: Review: Whoah, Dockery Dawgs BLUES!!!!!!!
From: Bobert
Date: 09 Mar 03 - 05:38 PM

Yo, ~S~, hey, them Dawgs ain't the onliest Tweezerins that got a CD out. Might of fact, one of our best east coast blues bands is from up around yer parts, The Fove Points Band with our very own, Robbin the Hammer singin' and gotfiddlin' right good fir a guy with a hemp coat.

And Tweezer and I might go ahead and do a CD of our own. Did you know that the two of us were 'sposed to play at the Stupor Bowl but neither of us could scrape up the dough for transportation and new strings fir the gitfiddles.

And speakin' of Tweezerins. Beachead, from Austrialia is one mighty fine bluesman, as is Pejamo form that area of the world. Well, heck, Wayne pudry danged talented to fir a Limmie.

But like if you like the Dawgs, you'll like Robin's band, too.

Bobert

Subject: RE: Review: Whoah, Dockery Dawgs BLUES!!!!!!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Mar 03 - 09:02 PM

Bobert, I didn't know you could speak Norwegian! :~)

~Susan

Subject: RE: Review: Whoah, Dockery Dawgs BLUES!!!!!!!
From: Hippie Chick
Date: 10 Mar 03 - 04:18 PM

HC Speaks Truly!!   DD are great! Never doubt my word! :D

Subject: RE: Review: Whoah, Dockery Dawgs BLUES!!!!!!!
From: Bobert
Date: 10 Mar 03 - 06:38 PM

Susan: Danged, no wonder folks si always messin' with me about my sprellin". Ya think Iz a Norweeeegan? Well, maybe I is. That would explainerate a lot of things, wouldn't it. Ahhhh, speakin' of Norweeegan and Meican, I musta been speakin' the Norweegan aboove whae I was tellin' ya 'bout Robin the Hammer's band. It's the Five Points Band in Mericaneese and not the Norweegan "Fove Points Band". Heck, this biligula stuff 'ill wear you out...

Bobert

p.s. Yo HC, tell these folks about Robin's band. Man,they are good, good, yummy good!

Subject: RE: Review: Whoah, Dockery Dawgs BLUES!!!!!!!
From: GUEST,rolfyboy6
Date: 11 Mar 03 - 01:15 AM

Jon Ivar Reitan (Johnny) and Geir Hansen (Bacon), the Dockery Dawgs, have been working musicians in the Trondheim/north area of Norway for a number of years. The blues scene like the folk scene is strong in Norway (they overlap, and the Norwegians aren't real doctrinaire about labels). While this is the Dawgs first CD, they weren't naive about what they were doing and planned out things very strongly. And then let inspiration strike a bit during recording. I really like the crazy one string diddly bo they made and used to get the zzwangggg sounds on a couple of tracks. And "Retribution Blues" is about as unforgiving a blues song as there is.

Subject: RE: Review: Whoah, Dockery Dawgs BLUES!!!!!!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Mar 03 - 09:42 AM

Oooh, a real review-type post finally! Thanks! Come on guys, tell us more about the Dawgs so people can catch what I caught!

Need a working link here on how to get this thang!

~Susan

Subject: RE: Review: Whoah, Dockery Dawgs BLUES!!!!!!!
From: Hippie Chick
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 05:05 PM

Here it is:
Dockery Dawgs

Subject: RE: Review: Whoah, Dockery Dawgs BLUES!!!!!!!
From: GUEST,Johnnie
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 09:48 AM

Well. Thanks for all the kind words about our duo; Dockery Dawgs.

I'm the guitar player (and diddely bow plunker) known as Johnnie at the Tweedboard.

It's correct as the Tweedsters say that "Moan" is our regular first release. Me and the lead singer (Geir AKA Bacon) did release a 4 track CD in 1995 with our band Blues Medicine.

We also released a 12 track demo CD in 2000/2001 (13 songs with the hidden track, but 13 is bad luck...)It's recorded by ourselves and with no added instrumentation. (This is maybe even a surprise for the Tweedsters)

The "Moan" CD has additional instruments, piano, harmonica and percussion on a couple of tracks, even a drumloop, but most of of it it's regular acoustic stuff.

As Norwegians the CD is mainly made for our own audience. We can't be purists because that's immpossible with our own cultural background. Most of our music is prewar blues, but we try to make songs ourselves that doesn't differ that much. We've added African percussion instruments to try to get the music down to the soil of the earth. Other Norwegians (like Knut Reiersrud) adds traditional Norwegian folk music to the blues.

I've always wondered why the blues is so popular in Norway, were we have little in common with it's origins, but I think it's something with the blues that touches people across borders and cultures because it's REAL music.

John Ivar

Subject: RE: Review: Whoah, Dockery Dawgs BLUES!!!!!!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 12:06 PM

Hey Johnnie, thanks for checking in. Your CD.... it's just amazing. My husband and I were raised with Chicago blues and the mix you have of driving power plus the country-blues feel is really astounding. Much luck with future projects-- hope you'll let us here at Mudcat know when you do another project!

~Susan