EDDIE SPAGHETTIExtra Sauce

Genre: Punkrock
Label: Reptilian
  • LPcol
    23,00 
    Includes 19% MwSt.
SKU: 020103 Release Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024

Description

“The Sauce spans seven decades of songwriting and showcases Spaghetti’s impeccable song choices and uncanny ability to sing the drinking songs for drinkers who like to drink the drinks.”
In 2003, Motherfuckers Be Trippin’ revived the Supersuckers nameplate. Issued through their own Mid Fi imprint, it riffed and smirked with renewed zing and estimable sleaze. That air of lovable gracelessness carries over to Suckers’ main man Eddie Spaghetti’s first solo effort, a messy and grinning bucket of covers called Sauce. In his liner notes, Spaghetti trashes the whole idea of solo records, especially those that consist solely of covers. But in typical fashion, that doesn’t stop him from doing his own. Sauce features quick and easy, largely acoustic versions of outlaw country faves from Kris Kristofferson (“Best of all Possible Worlds”) and Willie Nelson (the mirthful and giddy “Gotta Get Drunk”). There’s also a run through “Cocaine Blues,” but his isn’t underpinned with terror like Johnny Cash’s. Instead, Spaghetti cranks it out steely and fast, like it was the last song of the middle set in a Tuesday night dive bar gig. He gets a tad serious — or at least heartfelt — with Steve Earle’s “I Don’t Want to Lose You Yet,” but it’s back to a bleary-eyed cross of honky tonkin’ and low culture slummin’ for “Peace in the Valley” (originally by A3): “Well I got ecstasy/But I need some company.” That sentiment continues for “Killer Weed,” the better of Spaghetti’s two originals here. As he does throughout Sauce, Eddie adopts a sort of deadpan Lee Hazlewood persona for the track — he might as well perch a raglan horse head on the lip of a six-foot bong. Sauce isn’t country, and it doesn’t rock like his day job. But from end to end, it drips with the same dastardly good-time juice that defines the best Supersuckers stuff.

Tracks

01. The Best Of All Possible Worlds
02. Bottom Dollar
03. Sleepy Vampire
04. Gotta Get Drunk
05. Misery & Gin
06. Little Ol' Wine Drinker, Me
07. I Don't Want To Lose You Yet
08. Sea Of Heartbreak
09. Cocaine Blues
10. Killer Weed
11. Peace In The Valley
12. Blue Shadows On The Trail