GREG ASHLEY & THE WESTERN PLAYBOYS - s/t LP tropicalia label scans

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Two of New Orleans more prolific free jazz reed players—PAUL GRASS (tenor sax) and TRAVIS BLOTSKEY (baritone sax)—help to glue this mass of southern scum rock to the lineage of serious free music shamans such as Sun Ra and Peter Brotzman

the Routes managed more than a one hit wonder

the album carries over that righteously famed teeth-chattering

the only person you could even mildly compare him too is Pye Corner Audio

GREG ASHLEY & THE WESTERN PLAYBOYS - s/t LP tropicalia label scansHighly recommended. Together with the Western Playboys, you can hear the dusty technicolor Rio Grande flowing in the veins of these new recordings. Many of these songs are Greg's indomitable take on waltz, country swing and golden honky tonk greats like Stonewall Jackson and Charlie Walker, but lest we forget the cover of Estrus records' finest garage rock nihilists The Makers. This 12 EP plays out from start to finish like a band in a washed out juke