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I have to say I'm pleasantly surprised by this first-rate alternative country band. Used Carlotta is a country band that really knows how to twang! Damn fine honky tonking country rock with steel guitars, fiddles, mandolins, and even some saxophones. This brand new album with old-fashioned country music has been produced by John Morand (Cracker, Sparklehorse, and Joan Osbourne) and was recorded without overdubs in one single session. The result is a truly warm-sounding live album, but without the applause of the audience.
Like other neo-traditionalist hillbilly boys BR5-49, the Gourds, and Robbie Fulks they don't take themselves too seriously, but without losing their magnificent musicianship, Used Carlotta manages to combine lyrics dark as a dungeon with the melancholy in their music that reflects images of lost highways, trailer parks, Nashville, and cowboy hats. To be honest, this album doesn't measure up to the powerful and energetic honky tonkin' music of BR5-49, but 'Reckless Wheels' is damn fine melodic country rock, just the way you twangers like to hear it!
Louis Letford is singing about pain and loss with a big smile on his face. You never know if Louis Letford is singing a true story or not, and probably neither does he, but his soulful voice succeeds to entertain. BR>Although Used Carlotta is exploring the various roots of true American music with whiskey-soaked vocals that beautifully mesh with the rhythmic driven music, unfortunately not all the songs on 'Reckless Wheels' are nearly as strong as the country weeping 'Dead Girl' and the highly melodic and fast-driving truck song 'Big Fat Moon'. There is also an average cover of the singin' brakeman Jimmie Rodger's old-time country classic 'Nobody Knows Me' and an odd instrumental song called 'Grace's Waltz', but one of the true highlights on this interesting country album is the heart-breaking title track that makes 'Reckless Wheels' worth a listen.
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