Reed Turchi (photo credit: Alysse Gafkjen) |
Gitcha Records is proud to present the 15-year anniversary re-release for Reed Turchi’s Road Ends in Water—his early showcase of basement recordings with special guest Luther Dickinson of North Mississippi Allstars. These tracks have never been on streaming / digital services or pressed on vinyl, and only received a very limited personal CD run when originally recorded.
“Keep On Drinkin’,” the new lead single that just dropped today from the album, may sound like a good-time party song, but the deeper you listen the darker it gets. A song about a son who’s had enough, yet is destined to end up on the run, the story of “Keep On Drinkin” is more Bruce Springsteen Nebrasaka-esque tragic-figure than Kid Rock party anthem. American Blues Scene editor Lauren Leadingham recently said the track has “the swagger of a vintage Rolling Stones barroom anthem that charges forward like a freight train bound for darker territory.”
The locomotive-driving drums (Cameron Weeks) and bass (Chris Reali) along with the fuzzed-out, tape-machine-destroying slide guitar of Luther Dickinson build a kudzu-thick boogie behind Turchi’s one-chord romp & story-telling — “ain’t turned back, & I don’t plan to” — and so it goes, pulse our only proof of life beneath the burning light.
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Reed Turchi is a Grammy-Winning musician, poet, and producer from Swannanoa, North Carolina, now living in Brooklyn.
Hailed as “Beyond genre constraints” by The Oxford American, and described as “a blast of blues rock…both crafted and improvised” by Rolling Stone, Turchi has performed his slide guitar & signature kudzu boogie sound across the US and Europe since 2010.
Featured by NPR, PBS, Rolling Stone, American Songwriter, No Depression, KEXP, Living Blues, and Daytrotter, Turchi has established himself as one of the most varied and prolific artists and producers operating in the roots-music world today.
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Reed Turchi’s upcoming album, Road Ends in Water, will be released on vinyl, CD and digital/streaming platforms via Gitcha Records on October 9th. His new lead single “Keep On Drinkin'” feat. Luther Dickinson is out now on all DSPs.
