Caleb Caudle (from the album Sweet Critters

Caleb Caudle (from the album Sweet Critters

Caleb Caudle (from the album Sweet Critters available on Caleb Caudle/Missing Piece Records) (by Bryant Liggett)
Caleb Caudle is cool. This isn’t in reference to a thumbs up, leather jacketed, style of cool, although I’m sure this Folkie has an air of textbook hip about him. This reference is in his sound, as the songs on his latest, Sweet Critters, comes complete with a laid-back vibe, it is a casual and care-free offering that oozes smooth from a dozen cuts, tracks that thread through touches of Folk and gritty Gospel, Blues and rough around the edges Roots.
 
The album introduction in opener “Great High Mountain” is Gospel Goth, referencing mountains moving as the narration calls out for help from above while pleading belief.  “The Devil’s Voice” is a cut of temptation, using vivid language as Caleb Caudle paints a tale of a dark bar while “The Brim” is a cut of Folk tenderness, adding more linguistic vividness. When Caleb Caudle sings ‘loud as acorns pouring down on a tin-roof’ you can’t help but hear that battering sound in your head; a bonus in the song are the harmonies of Aoife O’Donovan, a hushed addition that’s cotton soft.
 
“Hollywood Ending” is front-porch Lounge, and a bouncer hit is “The Garage”, an aptly titled cut that fits into the Roots/Garage Rock realm as Caudle reminisces in song while nodding to start up gigs and the venues giving those baby bands a chance. He also dips into North Mississippi Blues Boogie on the trancey “Knee Deep Blues”. Caleb Caudle plays the field and covers lots of Roots Rock ground on Sweet Critters, dropping an abundance of coolness in a record of gritty Roots.  (by Bryant Liggett)
 
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