Robert Kidney - Rosalee - from the album Jackleg - 15-60-75
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- Robert Kidney's (15-60-75, The Numbers Band) video for the song "Rosalee," from the Exit Stencil Recordings release, Jackleg (2016). A longtime staple of Numbers Band live shows, this song was notably covered by Chrissie Hynde and The Pretenders on their 2008 album, Break Up The Concrete.
Video filmed and edited by Jason Prufer.
Jackleg is a stripped down, bare-boned, and beautifully haunting album of folk / blues created by one of the foremost progenitors of outsider music of the last 50 years: Robert Kidney. While Kidney spends much of his time fronting the legendary 15-60-75 (The Numbers Band), described as “Blues and Chaos, raw power, and the true price of independent rock & roll spirit,” by David Fricke from Rolling Stone, Jackleg finds Kidney returning to the troubadour tradition of a singular voice with a solo guitar, right where he started - playing folk clubs in Cleveland and Akron in the mid-to-late 1960s.
Robert Kidney and the Numbers Band have always been a blue collar band. Never finding nor seeking mainstream accolades, Kidney and Co. approach music and songcraft from a place of honesty, hard work, and the view that the creation of music is as essential an element of life as daily labor is to putting food on the table. Nowhere is this relationship to work and music more evident than on the songs contained on Jackleg.
At the suggestion of longtime friend and collaborator, Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu), Kidney entered Studio G in Brooklyn, New York, and recorded the songs as they exist---live, without the use of overdubs or additional instrumentation. As such, every breath, creak, pain, heartache, and word reverberates with an immediacy and intimacy that makes you feel like you are there on the back porch with Kidney as he is singing these songs to himself and the open night sky.
A timeless album, Jackleg conjures the traditional blues in the vein of Lightnin’ Hopkins, while at times incorporating the darker elements of Ghost Tropic era Songs: Ohia. Delivered through Kidney’s strong and powerful baritone voice---not dissimilar to the late, great Blaze Foley--- Jackleg delivers a powerful and unforgettable meditation of the artist as working class, and the artist as outsider.
Back to the days at the Berth don't you think Bob-well done.
Beautiful Robert, Thanks brother 🙏🏻 👌🏼
Just saw them at the Akron Art museum, last Thursday, they are always great!
Outstanding. Gotta love The Numbers Band.
I always love it when I get a chance to see the Numbers Band, one of my favorites by far. Bob, this song is really good. Thanks.
Love this, Robert. Thank you & Happy Birthday.
Man! This is a great song!
Nice
Greatly enjoyed watching the Numbers Band several times at The Peace House in Youngstown, Ohio!