Double Vanities - How Come Your Sister Doesn't Know My Name Anymore
Once I brought home a John Jacob Niles album from the thrift store. Had never listened to this artist before and after the first play was pretty much astounded. There was another time a friend introduced me to Hasil Adkins, this was equally a push in new listening revelations. Double Vanities is not playing a dulcimer (close), and is not singing in a male alto voice, also not playing rockabilly or looking to cut heads off (just souls in two), but if you combined John Jacob Niles and Hasil Adkins, it might produce How Come Your Sister Doesn't Know My Name Anymore.
How Come Your Sister Doesn't Know My Name Anymore holds seven selections of crooked folk music filled with sinuous knurls and black furrows. These sounds reach deep into time and emotions, bringing back dusty instruments and tales of trouble and sorrow. Double Vanities is the project of Matthew Goethe. He sings vintage poetry, a muse of faded black and white photos, telling stories lost in grins and snarls a single moment of frozen time can never capture. A lost emotional energy resurfacing with the help of Matthew's control over the ukelin. A bow pulled across it or strings picked, either method of engagement producing haunting sounds that fuse with voice. These seven selections Double Vanities has composed captures the essence of emotion behind delta blues and cast pure creative music techniques into future realms. How Come Your Sister Doesn't Know My Name Anymore is the essence of raw form and sublime beauty.
Released on the Birmingham, Alabama music label Sweet Wreath in a limited cassette edition. This is the first Sweet Wreath release to go through Lost in a Sea of Sound and it will be hard to top. Double Vanities has a bandcamp page with more music to explore. Copies of How Come Your Sister Doesn't Know My Name Anymore are available from the Sweet Wreath bandcamp page.
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