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As Americana As Apple Pie
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
This episode guest hosted by Gavon Laessig.
Putative cousins Wallace Cochran and Jeff Stolz unfortunately don't have a morphine habit or syphilitic dementia to fuel a family rivalry. Despite being far more stable and far less dead than some of their musical heroes, however, when performing as Drakkar Sauna they still manage to produce music just as heartbreakingly pretty as was made by their hard living country-roots forebears. It's in tribute to one of these troubled influences, The Louvin Brothers, that Drakkar Sauna have recorded their new album, "Wars & Tornadoes." This set of Louvin Brothers covers retains the close harmonies of the Grand Ole Opry duo and feeds it through Drakkar Sauna's eclectic Americana smörgåsbord. Songs of old timey despair and redemption from the '40s and '50s by a couple of siblings who were torn apart by alcoholism never sounded so toe tappin'. Wallace Cochran took time out of making sandwiches and Jeff Stolz took time out of shopping for ground chuck to talk with us at the Community Merc.
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