Good old rock and roll. You can’t beat it. Well, you can try, but it is sure as hell going to beat you back and do so with the sonic punch of three generations worth of attitude and experience. It’s best just to let it do its thing. Especially when its thing proves to be as great as the new single from the fabulously named Trickshooter Social Club.
The great thing about “Mile Wide,” actually one of the many great things about it, is that rather than drilling down into what rock, or perhaps more appropriately, rock ‘n’ roll, is today, it reminds us that the genre, like all established genres, is more than the sum of its parts, and does so by proceeding to explore what those constituent parts might be.
And so, “Mile Wide” runs on a proto-glam stomp and salvos of bluesy rock guitar licks; it runs amok with country grooves and explodes with psychedelic anthemics, it also harnesses garage rock cool, and no small amount of power pop accessibility. And for a song soaked in the mad, bad, and dangerous-to-know worlds of the alternative and the underground, it is surprisingly literate, a bit like realizing that the guy who is mugging you at knifepoint is doing so whilst reciting Robert Frost. Well, maybe not, but you know what I’m getting at.
Rock and roll is an ever-evolving sound, and while many, mainly younger, wet-behind-the-ears artists are busy trying to convince us that they are where it is at, Trickshooter Social Club offers a much more interesting proposition: They show us where it’s been.
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