SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: CAT CLYDE – MUD BLOOD BONE

CAT CLYDE 
MUD BLOOD BONE
CONCORD RECORDS

Really good singer-songwriters these days take much harder routes to creating music of substance. Of course it is the much harder road than just strumming your guitar, tinkling your piano and singing something sad about your hurt feelings. And the lyrics get a more diversified tone and timbre, and it is not just for good measure. That is exactly the route Cat Clyde takes on her fourth album, Mud Blood Bone.

No, Clyde does not forget her guitar (acoustic or otherwise), but she takes a more diversified route, taking a more bluesy, rootsy (or even rockabilly and country soul) route here, where her 1973 Boler trailer in Hamilton, ON, and a boat in England possibly served to give a more down to earth sound, effectively underpinned by Drew Vandenberg’s (Faye Webster, S.G. Goodman) production. Clyde doesn’t mess with her lyrics either, skipping all the usual navel gazing traps. Rootsy, swampy, and excellent.

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