Gossip Wolf has Loved the delightfully cracked musical mind of Tijuana Hercules bandleader John Vernon Forbes since the 1990s, when he fronted local noise-rock killers Mount Shasta for a sizzling run of albums on Skin Graft Records. And it seems like Skin Graft feels the same way! On Friday, July 10, the label will drop Evening Dressings, a blistering seven-song Tijuana Hercules release full of what Forbes and company call “hillbilly trance.” Cut at Forbes’s Frogg Mountain Recording Studio, it features the bandleader on guitar, keys, synth, and theremin, plus Joe Patt on drums, Doug Abram on baritone sax, Mike Young on “junk percussion,” and Sam Crossland on keyboards. Tracks such as “Let’s Make Our Own Action” and “Gas Pump Woman” shuffle, stomp, glide, and stagger like a drunk couple on a sticky roadhouse dance floor.
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