BOB URH & THE BARE BONES

BOB URH & THE BAREBONES "Pretending"

Bob Urh : Guitar, Vocals, Percussion, Hammond Organ, Drums, Mayan Flute, Greg Clarke : Drums, Percussion, Tony Matura : Guitar, 6 string Bass, Blues Harp, Vocals, Ed Smith : Guitar, Kyle Dollinger : Organ, Drums, Tara McMunn : Bass, Organ, Backing Vocals “If the ghosts of Brian Jones and John Lee Hooker got together in their little corner of hell with a fifth of mash whiskey this is what it would sound like. Everything that exile on main street should have been. Raw, Shambolic juju-blues that rates with Sioux city pete in the psychodrama department.” JEFF DAHL, CARBON 14 magazine. USA reviewed by Planet Trash (translated excerpt) : After hearing ‘Hoodoo Garage’ by Bob Urh & The Bare Bones I can conclude that at the end of year I found a serious contender for my list of this year’s releases that truly turn me on. Hoodoo Garage has a rudimentary sound with minimal arrangements. Each track seems to be inspired by another classic. From Robert Johnson to The Velvet Underground and from The Gun Club to The Rolling Stones’ ‘Exile On Mainstream’. Hoodoo Garage ends abruptly after which I realize that Bob Urh has made a special record. reviewed by Ewie for FileUnder (translated excerpt) : These Americans, on ‘Hoodoo Garage’, manage to combine the music of The Rolling Stones and Velvet Underground. This record, full of old fashioned r&b and garagerock, charmingly rattles like there’s no tomorrow and the song material is diverse and very good. Basically I hope that both Lou Reed and Mick Jagger receive a copy of this, so they can get some inspiration for one last great musical effort. reviewed by Paul van de Gehuchte for Rock Tribune (translated excerpt) : Names that spring to mind while listening to ‘Hoodoo Garage’ are Howe Gelb (Giant Sand), Lux Interior (The Cramps) and Jon Spencer. Singer-guitarist Bob Uhr takes no chances while creating the most authentic sound possible. Beware for the ‘voodoo’ of ‘Hoodoo Garage’, the perfect soundtrack for an explicit, low-budget, roadmovie. reviewed by Ton van Bemmel for Country Gazette (translated excerpt) : They mostly play rock which at certain times reminds of a Neil Young and Crazy Horse-practice. It took me a couple of spins before this started to make some sense to me... http://www.countrygazette.nl/ reviewed by Jurgen Dignef for Goddeau (translated excerpt) : Hoodoo Garage is a record by a extremely talented singer-songwriter, who presents us with all that’s essential in 50 years of rock’n’roll history. Urh is a child of rock’n’roll in all its aspects and ‘Hoodoo Garage’ is the perfect reflection of such. http://www.goddeau.com “It's not easy to describe his style, it's some kind of weird mix between garage punk, americana with some Velvet Underground, psychobilly, Johnny Thunders, psych spices - psychotic semi-acoustic desert music … The world of Bob Urh is very strange - something between imagination, dreams and reality … If you can imagine Roky Erickson join Giant Sand with lot of booze and other means, you will know what I'm talking about” (NO BRAINS zine. NEDERLAND) “This band plays stripped down, raw and crude blues punk (for a lack of a better term) with a garage vibe that calls both mid sixties electrick blues and more post psych stuff…” THE TROUBLE WITH NORMA magazine, USA “… Still, the nice, spidery acoustic sound helps convey the dark rural energy these guys ooze, …” BACK TO COMM magazine - USA “apocalypticly folky” SECRETLY CANADIAN - USA “fuckin fantastic sounds!!!” THE MUSCLE CAR SHOUTOUT radio show. FRANCE “real rock’n’roll” BILL KELLY: WFMU’s SULTAN OF PSYCHO radio show: USA “an artisanal CD into folk punk trend a la Sky Saxon” GARAGE BAND REVISITED zine, FRANCE “heroin-chic drug psychosis. All very evil-natured and crue” LOWCUT zine. DENMARK

Recordings/Discography: Swamp O Delic, CD [2007, Green Cookie records] Hoodoo Garage Cd, [2005, Green Cookie Records] Boom Boom A Zoom Zoom/Ramblin' Man ("Hypnowheel" 45), [2005, Ultraproductions Records #002] Additional Tracks On: "I Cry Every Night Over You" on The Bombing Of New York Vol. 11, Cd Comp. (2006, Listen Loudest Records, Croatia) "Cracker Daddies And Crockadiles" & "The Sky Is Crying" on The Bombing Of New York Vol. 10, Cd Comp., (2004, Listen Loudest Records, Croatia) "Wonderful" & "Graveyard Shift" on Lost In Tyme Magazine, Cd #1, (2004, Greece) "Pretending" & "Red Skin Man Intro" & "Graveyard Shift" on The Bombing Of New York Vol. 8, Cd Comp., (2003, Listen Loudest Records, Croatia)