Name: Snake in the Radio
Brand: Bloodshot
SKU: 924633
Price: 9.97 SGD
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Snake in the Radio

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Album: Snake in the Radio
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Forest Fire
2)	Come Home Blues
3)	Town Too Fast for Your Blues, A
4)	I'll Wait
5)	Graffiti Girl
6)	Ask the Wind, Ask the Dusk
7)	Don't Look Back
8)	You'll Be Mine
9)	Sin Tax Dance
10)	Snake in the Radio
11)	Town Without the Blues

Album: Snake in the Radio
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Forest Fire
2)	Come Home Blues
3)	Town Too Fast for Your Blues, A
4)	I'll Wait
5)	Graffiti Girl
6)	Ask the Wind, Ask the Dusk
7)	Don't Look Back
8)	You'll Be Mine
9)	Sin Tax Dance
10)	Snake in the Radio
11)	Town Without the Blues

Performer Notes

Personnel: Mark Pickerel (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, drums, percussion); Mark Pickerel (guitars); Johnny Sangster (guitar, electric guitar, electric bass, background vocals); Margrethe Bjorklund (pedal steel guitar, background vocals); Jerry Battista (nylon-string guitar, mandolin); Micah Hulscher (piano, organ, electric organ, Moog synthesizer); Steve Fisk (electric piano, Mellotron, Moog synthesizer); Jim Sangster (electric bass).
Additional personnel: Heather Duby (vocals); Steve Fisk (ARP synthesizer); Jerry Battista.
Audio Mixer: Steve Fisk.
Recording information: Philosophy Of The World Recording (09/2004-11/2005).
Former Screaming Trees drummer Mark Pickerel reinvented himself as a front man and resurfaced in 2006 with this collection of dark tales set in a variety of desolate locations. Pickerel's voice has the shaky intensity of an unholy combination of Roy Orbison and Chris Isaak, while the ramshackle production, overseen by grunge legend Steve Fisk, provides an appropriately unsettling musical backdrop.

Professional Reviews

Magnet (p.102) - "Pickerel's deep, sonorous baritone matches the melancholy material."

Mojo (Publisher) (p.114) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Steel guitar whine, meaty Morricone twang, stark rhythms and atmospheric electronic touches propel plucky love songs..."