Chitliln'
Fooks - Did
It Again
Brand new album from Dutch/Belgian duo compared to a modern
day Gram Parsons
and Emmylou Harris.
Chitlin' Fooks is Carol Van Dyk from Bettie Serveert, Pascal Deweze from Sukilove,
and friends.
Chitlin' Fooks second full-length outing follows their critically lauded self-titled
debut from 2001, and is a tender and alluring collection of songs sung by Dutch
chantuese Carol Van Dyk (Bettie Serveert) and Belgian singer-songwriter Pascal
Deweze (Sukilove). Still rich with the honest melancholy sweetness of classic
Country & Western music and it's modern "Americana" equivalent,
Did It Again adds to the mystique. "We wanted to steer away from the pure
country feel of the first record and inject a little more soul and gospel influences.
The fact that we did quite a lot of live playing as a band with the first album,
gave some of the tracks a more 'rockier' feel than our self-titled debut. First
time around, me and Carol still had to learn each others strengths and weaknesses
- now it was much easier to poke a salty finger in a sore spot and easier to
finish one anothers
songs," observes Deweze. Did It Again sounds as if Carol, Pascal and compadres
went stomping down the Natchez Trace, from Nashville to New Orleans, getting
their bootheels muddy in the murky waters of the Delta. The duo and friends have
succeeded in even further expanding their scope, delivering another collection
of timeless songs rich in emotions, both musical and lyrical; from ragged rockers
like the title track (with smart horn charts), and "Take The Money And Run" (in
which van Dyk and Deweze conjure images of a modern day Bonnie and Clyde), to
the bittersweet laments of "Too Good
To Be True" and "Almost Too Close". Fans of traditional roots
music will thrill to the dixie washboard rhythms of "Don’t Wait Up
For Me" (featuring Carol van Dyk like you’ve never heard her). Unlike
the band’s debut, no cover songs were recorded for this album. Deweze explains
the songwriting process for Did It Again: “We wrote them ourselves so they
must have picked us. We tried our hand at a Robert Wilkins cover but in the end
that didn't make it to the album, mainly because I had a bad case of laryngitis
and so my voice sounded like a dead bird. The last three days before rehearsals
started, we wrote one song a day so there wasn't much time to write some extra
stuff. We did it on purpose though. The small timeframe in which we write and
record the Chitlin' songs give them a fresh and urgent spark. Or that's what
we like to think...” Did It Again is simply true music by true people about
life, love and forgiveness. Amen. |
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