Red Sun

1988 was a year that was dominated by bands playing a guitar dominated sound. The Pixies released Surfer Rosa, fIREHOSE If'n, Sonic Youth Daydream Nation and Dinosaur Jr Bug. All records that was played at my home for many times at these days and I came back to them the recent days. A band that is seldom named with those bands is Thin White Rope, formed in California in the early 80's by Guy Kyser and Jozef Becker. Their music is stamped what many people called later Americana but I will name it classic blues influenced desert rock. Listening to this music again it is like driving on a highway through extinct countryside. This kind of music was seldom made by bands right now and therefore I have to get back to originals.

Thin White Rope - Red Sun

Red Sun

These days a song shuffled on my mobile phone I didn't listen to a long time. Back home I grabbed out the album 'In The Spanish Cave' by Thin White Rope. It's a record that was released in 1988 and I bought it on recommendation by my local record store and because I loved the cover showing a skeleton in front of a ship wreck. The music on this record I would describe as Americana or desert rock. A steady rhythm group on bass and drums were added with distorted guitars and a singer that sometimes sings like it would be the last time. All in all a record I forgot and I was grateful to found this record in my collection.

Thin White Rope - Red Sun
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