DAVE GRANEY
Title: Knock Yourself Out
Label: Cockaigne (Australia)
Catalogue No: (cock17)
Format: CD (album)
Release Date: 2009
Price: $ 25.00
Its a new "electro boogie / filthy R&B" solo album from the always colourful Dave Graney. It's beyond us to describe the guy..
Track Listing: (57:44 m:s)
- Knock Yourself Out (5:09 m:s)
- It Was Then Or Never (6:10 m:s)
- Honky Tonk Rope A Dope (2:40 m:s)
- Bodysnatcher Blues (5:29 m:s)
- Dylan The Indie Fake (5:37 m:s)
- I Need My Guitar (4:23 m:s)
- Sellout! (4:40 m:s)
- Throwin' One Into The World (6:07 m:s)
- So Easy (2:48 m:s)
- I Don't Wanna Go Bush (2:35 m:s)
- Oakleigh Bowie Blues (4:20 m:s)
- 2068 Babe (7:46 m:s)
Knock Yourself Out is the new solo album from Australian music character and identity Dave Graney. Dave Graney plays electric and acoustic guitars, bass, keys, harmonica and percussion and wrote, arranged, recorded, mixed and produced all twelve tracks.
Longtime collaborator Clare Moore was involved in co-writing, recording, arranging and playing on many tracks and Lurid Yellow Mist members Stu Thomas and Stu Perera guest on several as well.
The title Knock Yourself Out is another boxing allusion, following on from Graney and Moore's collective The Lurid Yellow Mist and their jazz/R&B masterwork of 2008 we wuz curious. In Graney's way of speaking Knock Yourself Out is a positive invitation to go your hardest!
This is not one guy sitting around with an acoustic guitar - it's a feisty and upbeat production that Dave Graney himself calls "a filthy R&B set or an electro boogie album". It's not generic, it's not rootsy, it's not pop - it's Dave Graney music.
Dave Graney started to write songs in the post punk period when mythology, ideology and self expression were all screwed up and meeting head on. Everybody wrote songs about their own situations as they were - when they were standing outside the disco, just about to walk in so to speak. American music has always been an inspiration for Graney, but the drama of his own experience as an Australian musician has thrilled him the most.
So here he is again, Dave Graney with album number 20 something, he's about to walk in to the disco and he wants you to join him - go on, knock yourself out!