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Holly Golightly & The BrokeoffsMajestic Cafe Detroit
Thursday June 17th 2010
Holly Golightly was born in London and grew up in a bohemian household. She was fed a diet of psychedelic, blues, and soul music. Lawyer Dave was raised in Texas on a diet of religion, country blues, and forbidden heavy metal. The end result of this combination is pure magic on their new album, Medicine County. Genuine love and quick-witted banter have made the duo unique and down-right entertaining. They live in rural Georgia.
Holly Golightly was born in London and grew up in a bohemian household. She was fed a diet of psychedelic, blues, and soul music. Lawyer Dave was raised in Texas on a diet of religion, country blues, and forbidden heavy metal. The end result of this combination is pure magic on their new album, Medicine County. Genuine love and quick-witted banter have made the duo unique and down-right entertaining. They live in rural Georgia.
Having never sung a note before, Holly kicked off her musical career in the legendary garage band Thee Headcoatees. After four years as a Headcoatee, Holly started a solo career, whilst still singing with the band. Her first full-length record, released in 1995, was The Good Things. Since then, she has become one of the most interesting and diverse artists to emerge from The Medway Delta.Holly primarily writes her own material, interspersed with a wide range of cover songs by such artists as Willie Dixon, Ike Turner, Lee Hazlewood, Wreckless Eric, and Bill Withers to name a few.
Although her sound has remained remarkably consistent throughout her career, each record has a quality that sets it apart from the others. Aside from her own records, Holly has also made guest appearances on various other projects over the years, from bands such as Mudhoney, The White Stripes, etc.
In fact, due to her initial collaboration with The White Stripes, she was then invited to sing a duet with frontman Jack White on the track “It’s True That We Love One Another,” which then appeared on the Stripes breakthrough album Elephant. It was this exposure that gave her a much wider audience for the future.A few albums later brought Holly to her 2007 release, You Can’t Buy A Gun When You’re Crying, in collaboration with long-time friend and US touring companion Lawyer Dave.
The two became the collective Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs and have been making records together ever since. This particular album of songs was recorded at home and it is packed with great tunes and eccentric themes. Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs’ follow-up album Dirt Don’t Hurt (Transdreamer Records/2008) was recorded during a short break in the middle of a 50-date European tour. Holly and Lawyer Dave found themselves in Gijon, Spain where they spent five days in the vintage analog studio, Circo Perotti, producing 14 gritty tracks that truly reflect the album’s title.
More recently, The Brokeoffs have been at it again with the release of their four-song EP Devil Do (Transdreamer Records) in late 2009. The EP features an even more devilish live version of “Devil Do,” which originally appeared on You Can’t Buy A Gun When You’re Crying, and an up-tempo Brokeoff-flavored version of “One More Fact” from Holly’s Painted On release. Holly and Dave do amazing justice to Lee Hazlewood’s classic “Dark In My Heart”; and master an even trippier version of their own “Whoopie Ti Yi Yo,” which also appeared on You Can’t Buy A Gun When You’re Crying.Now at the start of a new year, the Brokeoffs prepare for their most recent release, Medicine County, out March 30, 2010 via Transdreamer Records.
Recorded in an abandoned, recently foreclosed-upon church near to home, this album features twelve new tracks: eight originals by Golightly & The Brokeoffs alongside traditional numbers like “Blood On the Saddle” and “Jack O’Diamonds.” When describing the new album, Holly says it seems peppier than their last full-length, probably because she and Dave cut the tracks during a rare period of downtime: "There's only one slower song on it, which I didn't notice until afterward," she says. "I just think we had more energy than usual. We hadn't been recording in the middle of a tour, which we had to do for the last record and we had the opportunity to sift through potential tracks and decide. It was a case of [the raucous songs] being the ones that stood out as the ones we wanted to put on it. Having a bit more time makes it different than the other records.
"The album kicks off with “Forget It,” a track Holly says, “is for people to roller skate to...” Then, “Two Left Feet,” a song that Holly advocates “for anyone who can’t dance… which has alternatively become known as our porno number.” Among other tracks includes a chilling version of “Blood On The Saddle,” a childhood favorite of Lawyer Dave. “We felt we could bring some real conviction and passion to this song” Holly says, “gleened from our first hand, personal experiences.”
While there’s a spectral quality to those traditional songs and others on the album, they offer some levity and a sharp lyrical wit on tunes like “Eyes in the Back of My Head,” in addition to the album’s title track (“100 miles from nowhere, everybody needs a drink”). As Vanity Fair describes the lead off track, Forget It as “milky keyboards written in a standard key, crisp snare drums, and [Holly’s] whisky-soaked voice that sounds like it’s being played from a dusted-off record.”
MCB Kevin Soney will be covering this show