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micky and the motorcars

11/13/2019

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Micky & The Motorcars  (from the album Long Time Comin’ as a self-release) (by Bryant Liggett)
Micky & the Motorcars can appease both sides of the Country musical fence. Lovers of Modern Country can hear the melody while Country-music traditionalists, along with the cowpunk crowd in their work jackets sucking down cheap beer, will nod to the grit. On Long Time Comin’ the Austin by way of Idaho band deliver dusty weepers and lyrical reality via tales of PTSD and off-kilter love affairs. “Road to You” is a solid and upbeat album opener, leading into “Rodeo Girl” where a hint of guitar jangle and a pushy melody urge a drunken singalong for a rodeo romance.  “Lions of Kandahar” is a soldier’s song, from going off to war to ‘rain hell down on those men’ to the coming home where ‘civilian life ain’t easy, after what I’ve seen and done. I still hear the choppers coming, still hear the thumping of those guns’. The story is void of flag-waving pride chest thumping though loaded with a lyrical reality that hoists the banner that war has no winners.
 
Micky & The Motorcars find their zone, hitting out of the park with slow weepers. Arguably the strongest cut of Long Time Comin’, “All Looks the Same” is a tale about a lover splitting while “Run into You” a story of chance meeting someone you are longing to see. The Long Time Comin’ title track starts slow, warming up to a click-clack rhythm with a low-key accordion under the vocals, inviting you to explore ‘miles and miles of interstate, just sitting there waiting for the drive’, Micky & the Motorcars closing with optimism. (by Bryant Liggett)
 
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