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Review: 'MEADE, DANIEL & THE FLYING MULES'
'Let Me Off At The Bottom'   

-  Label: 'At The Helm Records'
-  Genre: 'Alt/Country' -  Release Date: '27th May 2016'-  Catalogue No: 'ATH19848'

Our Rating:
This modest, good time album was recorded in CaVa studios, Glasgow then mixed in Tennessee for a honky tonk meets skiffle sound that has more in common with Nashville than Scotland.

The eleven tracks are book-ended by two frenzied drinking songs designed to get the joint swinging: Back To Hell and The Bottle Called For Me.

In between, other crowd pleasers include There's A Headstone Where Her Heart Used To Be and Ghosts And Crocodiles both of which feature Meade's boogie-woogie piano for that full on saloon bar effect.

He and his three man Flying Mules also pull out all the stops on Please Louise, in which our hero desperately seeks to avoid a shotgun wedding ("I don't mind your big behind but I'm not in love with you"). On the equally upbeat Lock Up Your Daughter he's more footloose and fancy free.

Alongside all this jumping and jiving, the singer shows he can also turn his hand (and voice) to Country weepies like the wistful He Should've Been Mine and the George Jones style ballad Count The Roses.

Darker still is Leave Me To Bleed, a song told from the perspective of a man all but resolved to follow the example of his future wife who has committed suicide and features a tender duet with Siobahn Wilson.

The well sequenced album showcases the band's range well but there's no escaping the fact that these songs would be best heard in a live setting.

Daniel Meade's website
  author: Martin Raybould

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MEADE, DANIEL & THE FLYING MULES - Let Me Off At The Bottom