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| Kid Rock live: rowdy and more than a little cocky. |
3/6/2006
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Kid Rock and the Twisted Brown Trucker Band
“Live” Trucker
Kid Rock in concert in Detroit at his high energy rock out most profane best. Mos of his band has been with him forever. As he twists from style to style, they kepp the package rock hard.
Rock music has a grand tradition of live recordings. Way back in the early seventies live recordings from the Allman Brothers and the Marshall Tucker band kickstarted the whole southern rock scene.
Of course there have certainly been some ultra-lame ones too. In fact, some really stink..For selling a bazillion units and spawning a wallet full of radio hits, “Frampton Comes Alive” only goes to show that a pretty picture on the cover can sell a lot of records. I wonder if that will work as well with the dinky CD packages as compared to mini-poster sized LP covers.
For all the dismissive views of the rap’n roll scene, Kid Rock is actually just following in the grand tradition of working class Midwestern rock.
Kid Rock embodies all the boisterousness and cockiness.and rowdy attitudes in general befitting his stripped to the core basic music package.
That’s why it was so necessary it was recorded at a Detroit show.
John Mellencamp has become the spokesman of the heartland, ever since he was able to shed the fake “John Cougar” moniker. John Mellencamp has been right there, all along helping organize “Farm Aid” and singing “Born in a Small Town.”
This working class midwestern music encompasses a wide range of musical roots. He was attracting media attention for his duets and friendship with Hank Jr., but that wasn’t a gimmick. He likes to mix in all kinds of musical styles, There’s hiphop, there’s blues, there’s even a little jazz.
On the fringe way off to the right you have Ted Nugent , with his preoccupation with blood sports.
The cover is redone from an old live Bob Seger album: He also speaks to and from the Motor City and the great midwest, too.
.That scene goes deeper though, it’s history included the political anarchy of the 80s MC5.. Brownsville Station is there. That’s where REO came up before formulating the commercial formula that has served them so well.
He’s the hard working embodiment of the Midwestern work ethic.
We’re removed from all that Compton/Queens rivalry that’s had all those gangsta rappers blowing each other away
More than following the emerging rap’n roll of Eminem, or even the harder rocking Korn or Rage Against the Machine, and Limp Bizkit. The Kid takes his music on different tangents. It really is a marriage of hiphop and metal and blues and country.
Most of Rock’s band, The Twisted Brown Trucker Band, have been with him for years..
It actually comes off as more of an angry hard rock record that a rap/roll hybrid...
Oh, did I say that he swears a lot?
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Copyright reserved, 2006, the Music Syndicate..
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