Given his fondness for fedoras, his retro-cool fashion sense, and quirky sense of humor, Webb Wilder has long been one of those acts often dismissed as a gimmick without much weight behind the music, which is a wildly unfair assessment of the man's work. Wilder's hot-wired blend of rock and country-twang was certainly ahead of the curve when he cut the bulk of his recordings, between 1989 and 1995, and the cool strength of his voice was matched by the firepower of his guitar work; the man also ...   [ read more ]

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There's an old-fashioned, good-time quality about Webb Wilder & the Beatnecks that makes this weird outfit fun to listen to. Recorded in the 1980s, It Came From Nashville revels in electric guitars and straightforward rock & roll, which really wasn't the norm for the time unless one counts the Stray Cats. Wilder's vocals possess a dramatic flare that put songs like "I'm Wise to You" and "Move on Down the Line" right over the top in the best sense. At times the material runs close to ca...   [ read more ]

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Roots rocker Webb Wilder was due for a live album, which he finally recorded for the cameras in August 2005. The result was then packaged as a DVD/CD collection and released by Landslide in 2006 where it languished in near obscurity. Along comes the better distributed Blind Pig to the rescue and reissues the audio-only disc as a new release in January, 2008, two and half years after the original performance. By then Wilder should probably have had a new studio album in the can. Regardless, base...   [ read more ]

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