REID
PALEY
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Bluesy,
jazzy, Rock Noir with a swing all it's own. Belted out with a pitch-black
sense of humor and an alarming eloquence by Brooklyn’s apocalyptically
original barroom troubadour and his killer trio.
Featuring the animal magnetism and frightening charisma of Mr. Eric Eble
on the Czechoslovakian upright bass, and Mr. James Murray working that
trap kit. And Paley continues to beat the living hell out of his ‘55
Gretsch electric archtop guitar.
The Reid Paley Trio has torn up stages all over the damn place, and comes
to Mo Pitkin’s after yet another knockout tour across the US with
Frank Black, and their standout show (with special guest Eric Drew Feldman
on the keys) at the Into The City Festival in Vienna, Austria.
And the long-anticipated new Reid Paley Trio album Approximate Hellhound
is now available.
Think: Screamin' Jay, Sam Beckett, and a seemingly limitless capacity
for laughing in the face of life's unrelenting ugliness.
Approximate Hellhound is like the voices in your head at 4 am. If they
had a sense of humor, and you could shake your ass to them.
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The bastard
child of Sinatra and Lemmy. Epic, minimalist rock tunes with that end of the
night feel, when everything’s a little messy.' -Random Magazine UK
6/29/07
'The deliciously gravelly voice and Weillian pomp of tracks like Yr Polish
Uncle might put The Bad Seeds out of business. It’s not often that
adjectives like 'clever.' 'dark,' & 'heartwrenching' should be bandied about
in the same sentence, but Reid Paley Trio’s a special case. They’re
a special NY band.' -The Sentimentalist Summer 2007
'Possessed with the voice of a drunken wolf…Songs that roar.' - Pittsburgh
Tribune-Review 5/6/07
'Blues and jazz trip around his nocturnal growl in this accomplished collection.
There’s no holding back on the ferocious swing of Take What You Want,
and the brooding Better Days manages to rouse the soul even when Paley is staring
destruction in the face. A gem worth uncovering.” -The Big Issue UK
6/28/07
'A voice to turn good girls bad...Maybe crazy but damn exciting.' -Village
Voice
'Straightforward, sarcastic, funny and gifted at putting a song together.' -New
York Press
'Put simply, the Reid Paley Trio knows how to get down. He's got mischief in
his eye, Elvis in his joints, and booze everywhere else. -NYRock
'Reduce-you-to-tears razor wit...Reid Paley ought to be a household name.' -Pittsburgh
City Paper
'For all his simplicity, Reid is like nobody else,' -Seattle Weekly
'A proudly weird talent with a nervy raw appeal.' -Time Out New York
'For fans of churlish honesty and unaffected one-man shows, REVIVAL is a nonstop
riot.' -San Francisco Weekly
'More messy jazz from a drunken genius.' -City Life, Manchester UK
'A soot-black sense of humor as biting as an underfed Rottweiler.' -Cleveland
Free Times
'Best Of Manhattan' -New York Press
'One of the East Coast's best-kept secrets, his wryly misanthropic schtick is
all his own. Live, he is the Bill Hicks of the blues. You need to see him.'
-What's On In London
Revival: 'Best 50 Albums of the Year' -Alternative Press
Four Stars -GermanRollingStone
'As Baudelaire was the spleen of Paris, Reid Paley is the spleen of New York...
How else could he write such messianic blues, such prophetic rock 'n' roll?'
-442éme Rue, Paris
'An unholy howl of a voice.' -CMJ
'A great musical attraction...a sort of Sinatra for the disaffected.' -Mississippi
Reflector
'Though records like Revival drip with talent, sweat and humor, live is the
way to experience Paley.' -Village Voice
'Actually, it's more than one date with this vampiric Brooklyn songwriter -
it's four. And lucky us. Paley lives on the darker side of Saturday night, his
witty ballads backed by a Czechoslovakian upright bass, a trap kit, and a voice
that sounds like a bag of gravel in a blender. Just remember - his drawl is
worse than his bite.' -City Life, Manchester UK
'Reid Paley is the kind of artist Seattle loves. -The Stranger
'Paley's bare-boned and bloody-knuckled approach grabs you like a shot of tequila
that's gone down the wrong pipe.' -Aquarian Weekly
'A jarring reminder of what rock'n'roll once was and could be again.' -Washington
Times
'A legend waiting to happen.' -Muzic.com
'What? You want some kind of description of the artist and his music? Just fucking
listen to the guy &
enjoy his prowess.' -Frank Black
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