Adrian + Meredith Bad for Business

​Adrian + Meredith (from the album Bad for Business available as a self-release) (by Bryant Liggett)
A medicine show wagon has just rolled into town ready to peddle magic elixirs. This is their soundtrack, backing strong-arm sales tactics to the locals. From Gypsy Jazz and punchy Folk to Polkas and Country Blues all delivered with dirty Rock’n’Roll grit, the latest release from Adrian + Meredith, Bad for Business,is a Vaudevillian theatre, a mashed up concoction of the aforementioned sounds delivered in a good time package. 
The bouncy “Even” opens Bad for Business, pushed by a rough saxophone, giving you the first taste of the duo’s hard-sewn harmonies. Gypsy fiddle drives the title track and features clever wordplay referencing various Hubbard’s, namedropping L. Ron and Ray Wylie, while Adrian + Meredith drop surf guitar riffs as an invitation to vintage mod-dancers to do a herky-jerky dance in “DOA”. “California” has a Psychedelic Rock vibe and “Who Stole the Keishka” is a Balkan blast while A+M lay down a Country ballad with “Chalk”. “Valley View” is a slow, historical ballad dropped out of the Civil War era; quiet banjo providing a bed that supports a lonely fiddle that alternating with Meredith’s angelic vocals. It’s a cut that moves from ballad to hoedown to close out the album. Bad for Business is a fun record of old-time Americana. A place where Ragtime Jazz and Country Blues are given a 19th Century, European Folk treatment that comes with a Punk Rock stamp. (by Bryant Liggett)
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