MP3: Funky Nashville - Gone away
Funky Nashville. Funky. Nashville. Two words that should never, ever go together, especially in the context of a Danish band name. There's something so intrinsically wrong about that, even moreso when said band performs some fucked-up, bastardized version of Young Country. It's bad enough when American performers embrace the style, but please don't let Europe try and sell it back to us! For those of you lucky enough to be sheltered from the sounds of the genre, let me explain it to you: it's simply top 40 pop wrapped up in the artifice of country music. That means having a singer with a pronounced Southern twang and a few 'traditional' instruments such as pedal steel and fiddle. It may look like country music at first glance, but as Waylon Jennings famously sang, "Are you sure Hank done it this way?". It the case of Funky Nashville, the music is plenty comptetant, but so astonishingly jaw-droppingly wrong that it's worth sharing with you. In fact, I'd say that it's so bad that it's good. Really! You can tell from their stern looks in the sepia-toned cover art that these dudes ain't messing around either. When they play "California mansion girl" and decide to throw in a little jaw-harp, it's from the heart man. They mean business! Listen to those "Ring of fire" horns on the song I've posted today and ask yourself why? It just ain't right, but they don't let anything stop them from pulling out all the stops. Fer crissakes, I swear it's only a small step removed from Gerardo ("Rico Suave"). I'd say download at your own risk, but fuck it - you need to hear this.
Funky Nashville - Gone away