SIR RICHARD BISHOP, Hillbilly Erotica (Drag City; DC988, UK 2026) LP NEW/NEW

LP - NEW/NEW - SIR RICHARD BISHOP, Hillbilly Erotica (Drag City; DC988, UK 2026), , Sir Richard Bishop returns for a new spontaneous six-string meshing of people s music, recollections and psychic intentions. Are y all ready for some Hillbilly Erotica? Migration from last album s Ragas to this new Erotica is another chapter in Bishop s progress, drifting via songs into the further frontiers of his pappy s hometown sounds, trancing over and out in their hand-me-down clothes. As with the ragas, the rotica s hung round the neck of John Fahey s infamous dubbing of certain traditional American folk sounds as American Primitive. A perfectly good thought, but Sir Richard picks his own axe and chose a separate path. Rushing through gutters & picking pickled brains in the saucy headwaters of the down-low & literal American primitive, his hillbilly music is a mash of brined cultural inheritance, mini-ragas and moonshine-drunk savagery breaking out on the frets. As a conception for Sir Rick s acoustic guitar music, it s a dynamite means and frame, centering his improvisations in a place overflown with pagan desire and unbound in deliverance. Here he flies up and down the neck, his manner less pristine, yet more exquisite, a flailing, flowing-on-the-river medley through stubborn whitewater turbulence, post-grass and folk s classical gas. Anybody who takes a snort of this here Hillbilly Erotica will find a frankly spellbinding richness of intent and execution in their ear-mouths. And may thereafter find brain and blightness. It s fine! - 3156122S *** In Stock In Our Shoreditch Shop ***