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dean carter - rebel woman - ethbo - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Wave / Pop / Rock

1. Rebel Woman
2. I Got A Girl

A head-on collision of Rockabilly, tectonic garage punk and the production inventiveness usually attributed to the likes of Joe Meek or Phil Spector. Dean Carter started recording rockabilly in the late fifties in Champaign, IL and beat that path well into the late sixties. By then with an arsenal of the latest studio tricks, a bus-load of local talents and a single minded, twisted vision.

Carter, real name Arlie Neaville, released a handful of singles on the Fraternity and Limelight labels, he then built a home studio in Danville, IL with fellow musician Arlie Miller. They set to recording Carter and other candidates for their fledgling label Milky Way. In the early '70s, he moved into gospel music, which he still plays to this day.

The sessions that spawned these recordings include accordion, clarinet, Dean's 12 string dobro, ukulele and the backing vocals of Christine Williams and Janice Rodgers.

Carter's unique take on Jailhouse Rock, released in 1967 on Milky Way, was coupled with Rebel Woman: A wall of fuzzed out guitar and Carter's swooping vocal range, punctuated with karate chops. It's a cigarette's time-scale roller coaster which dumps you at the end, exhausted by the relentless reverb energy, with Carter's closing monologue babbling in your ears as you fade away. Backed here with I Got A Girl revealing another strand of Carter's mutant hybrid of rockabilly and garage. Needle in the groove, or direct to the jugular, the din underpinned by the throbbing rhythm of his local backing singers, Carter screams manic lyrics over a hastily scratched tremolo guitar. Mastered by Dubplates and Mastering, Berlin.