The Sam Chase & The Untraditional, The Last Rites of Dallas Pistol | The Vinyl Anachronist

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The Sam Chase & the Untraditional‘s new 2-LP release, The Last Rites of Dallas Pistol, is so unique that it might create its own musical genre–arena Americana, epic western folklore or panoramic country. This is an old-fashioned musical revue played out on a giant stage with a large cast, filled with familiar Texan tropes such as the outlaw, his mother, the devil and the hangman. Sam Chase has a raspy but expressive voice, and he’s pulled out all the stops to record what even he calls “a beast of an album with an importance that many of you probably thought was undeserved at the time.” When I say that Sam Chase has created a dusty, Texas swing fever dream straight out of a Cormac McCarthy novel, I’m not kidding. This is a sweeping tale, propelled by string arrangements based on simple chord progressions that will somehow remind you of a corner of the earth where you don’t want to be. Told in three chapters–Dallas Pistol, The Wolf, and The New Devil–this is a new type of Americana that’s dripping with an unusual and theatrical passion that comes from its sophisticated arrangements. Maybe Sam Chase describes Dallas Pistol the best–he calls […]

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