The Figs were
beamed into present day Louisiana in a horse & buggy time machine, launched
from somewhere in the distant past where there’s an abundance of cool old hats.
The Figs new CD, What Keeps Me Up at Night, — retro-produced and engineered by
the omnipresent, Jay Burton who is quickly becoming the Brian Wilson of
Lafayette — is a filled with antique twang, slowly plucked strings, and monosodium
harmonies, floating around a picturesque landscape of good & bad men, wary
women, guns, love, boats, trains, buses, escape, and a load of other cool old
things that populate the record, which functions like a soundtrack to an
imaginary film about women at the turn of the last century.
With the six
female members of the band — Claire Caffery, Sarah Gray, Caroline Helm, Jillian
Johnson, Paige Pemberton and Melissa Stevenson — sharing lead vocal and
songwriting duties, the music and songs never gets tedious, continuously luring
the listener further into the next procession of tracks like chapters in a
hardbound book that you’d rather not end. The CD is fifteen tracks in all.
Thirteen originals and two covers, one of which is the classic Jimmie Rodgers tune, "Muleskinner Blues."
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