Red Star Belgrade are one of those groups that I just love for no explainable reason. I've never met another fan, and I've only been able to turn one other person onto their music that I know of. To me they capture everything I love about music. Rawness especially. They really remind me of Neil Young and Crazy Horse....that distorted sloppy guitar on the edge of falling apart yet still so beautiful, lyrics that had no choice but to rise from the singers deepest depths of his psych only to blend perfectly with those fabulous crunchy guitar riffs. My introduction to the band was a 10" single I bought for $3 at my local record shop called "Lose Your Temper Gain An Injury"....one spin of that and I was hooked. A year or so later I see this CD in the same store and snatched it up....it has been a favorite ever since.
Now a little history of the band, don't bother searching for them, because in the age before the world wide web it seemed like a good idea to name your band after a prestigious soccer franchise known to everyone in the world except of course anyone in the US. RSB consists of Bill Curry and his wife Grahma Harris. Bill does the guitar, songwriting and singing, with his wife filling in the rest. The story I heard was that Bill was a well known music critic and writer for NME and he got fed up with all the BS and decided to start his own band. Well I for one am glad he did. In 1995 they released 2 singles, the previously mentioned "Lose Your Temper" and the haunting "Union, SC" about child murderer Susan Smith. That song landed them a gig on the Today show as Susan Smith was a big story back then . I've never seen this footage but would love to as I wonder how they got around the dreaded "n" word. This national attention gave RSB the exposure they needed and within a year their first full length album was out on a small indie out of Chapel Hill, NC. Not sure if it got national distribution, but it sure made it to my neck. They've done a few more albums since then, and as far as I know they are still going (I Hope). Enjoy
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Here's a sweet Neil Young boot from Austin City Limits 1984. Now I searched and searched for a proper cover for this but could not find one (which is strange when it comes to Neil Young boots). So I'm thinking somebody must have dicked with the track list or sequencing at some point. Regardless, it's a killer set full of country rock goodness.......big emphasis on the COUNTRY part of that statement. Check out the country version of Hawks & Doves on this thing.
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