Monday, January 7, 2013
Curtis Eller: 'Saving My Heart for the Butcherman' (2012)
“Saving My Heart for the Butcherman” is a vaudevillian banjo folk single by Curtis Eller.
The sound of the track (actually entitled: “Butcherman (Shine a Light on the Abattoir)”) is captured very fat and hot, sounding raw and rewarding. Click clack and loose tom percussion accent a tinny banjo line. Vocally Anna Roberts-Gevalt provides a perfect harmony to Eller's voice, which has a very spirited and pure roots-folk timbre. Mixed within the overall style of the track his vocal seems to be very similar to Jimbo Mathus, another modern Vaudeville revivalist... so similar in fact that I spent a considerable about of time trying to check out if they were the same person. It appears they're not, but I'm still suspicious.
Included on the single is a “solo” version of the track, which I found strange due to the track already being pretty unplugged. Upon listening, however, it's quite clear that the solo version is a much welcome bonus... as it catches an even more raw take on Eller's style, and a more stripped back and intimate rendition that doesn't fail to please.
“Saving My Heart for the Butcherman” is available at Curtis Eller's Bandcamp page.
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https://curtiseller.com
Playing Since: 1984
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Occupation: Banjo player, songwriter, rock & roll singer
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Curtis Eller is a banjo player, songwriter and rock & roll singer. A twenty-year show business veteran, Eller and his band The American Circus have developed a devoted international following based on dynamic, highly physical stage performances and an extensive catalog of curious phonographic recordings. The iconoclastic musician has spent more than a decade relentlessly touring the club, theatre and festival stages of a dozen countries in North America and Europe.
Eller is a gifted and prolific songwriter who's banjo-driven songs describe a dreamlike vision of American history where all points in time have collapsed into one. The American Circus is diligently at work on a new full-length album on which they have augmented their indelicate, rock & roll rhythms with a tempestuous cloud of horns and an graceless choir of backsliders in their quest to bring Eller's historically evocative compositions to vivid, cinematic life.
