Co-balt

Amazon.com Cobalt, Brute's long-awaited follow-up to their 1995 album, Nine High a Pallet, took its name from the German word for an underground goblin. When cobalt was first discovered in 1735, its ores were mistaken for copper and iron. When it didn't yield the expected metals upon smelting, the failure was blamed on the work of demons or a goblin. Somehow, the name seems particularly apt for this second pairing of jam-band extraordinaire Widespread Panic and rock's most talented iconoclastic minstrel, Vic Chesnutt. Like the discovery of cobalt, what you see--or think you see--is not what you get. Chesnutt's ragged, winsome poetry somehow works supremely well with Panic's unstructured, loose-limbed, jazzy style, creating something that is neither fish nor fowl and unlike anything they could do independently. Maybe it is the work of demons, those feral demons that lurk in Chesnutt's rich psyche, but whatever the impetus was, the alchemy the two create by coming together has allowed each to rein in their excesses and truly make a whole that is greater than the parts. Chesnutt's trademark stream-of-consciousness tone poems seem to take on a greater coherence and shape when he's fronting Brute, and Panic don't head off for the outer planets, in some interstellar jam, but actually have a defined rhythm while performing the Chesnutt-penned tunes. Recorded in only three days in producer John Keane's home studio, there is a poignant raw power to the 11 songs, and a freshness and crackling vitality not witnessed in a proper Widespread Panic album. Many of the songs were just ideas pulled out of Chesnutt's files, sung spontaneously over the already recorded tracks, but there are few serrated edges and off-kilter moments. Instead, Panic's surprisingly straight-ahead rock performance--sounding at times like ZZ Top--and Chesnutt's haunting, idiosyncratic imagery flow as smoothly as the Oconee River that runs through Athens, Georgia, which Panic and Chesnutt both call home. --Jaan Uhelszki Product Description Two of Athens, Georgia's most respected musical forces, Vic Chesnutt and Widespread Panic, comprise the powerhouse that is Brute. Chesnutt and Widespread Panic came together in the fall of 1993 to begin recording what would be the debut Brute disc, "Nine High A Pallet", which was released in the fall of 1995 on Capricorn Records. This new collaboration, "CO-BALT", like "Nine High A Pallet", was recorded in John Keane's home studio over an amazingly short three days in January of 2001, while Widespread Panic was on a break from recording the Sanctuary Records release, "Don't Tell The Band". The eleven tracks include trademark Vic Chesnutt originals like 'Expiration Day', "Adirondacks', 'Morally Challanged', and 'Puppy Sleeps', co-written with Dave Schools. "CO-BALT" shows Brute at its finest with powerful, darkly witty lyrics and unbelievable musicianship. The record is more mature and focused, bringing Vic's songwriting to its pinnacle. CO-BALT is the consummate Brute disc. Album will be stickered "Brute is Vic Chesnutt accompanied by Widespread Panic".
ASIN: B000063KPO
VSKU: DBV.B000063KPO.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Widespread Panic w/Vic Chesnutt/Brute
Binding: Audio cd
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