The Big Takeover: Jerry Oliver – Zombification of a Nation (Odd)
Peculiar Red, The Galaxy of Howling Dogs, and Spider Poets) since starting in 1976, but I first heard him on his “quirky, unpredictable” 17-song 2008 solo album, Death of the Avant Garde, which I reviewed in issue 63 (two mini-LPs, Believe and Zombification doesn’t include last year’s seven-minute, Donald Trump-decrying single “Cloud Paper Tree,” the song’s jittery, unnerving freak-folk, swamp-blues, and psych-rock vibe continues. Throughout, Oliver flails and massages his contorted, misshapen acoustic ( The New Dylans’ Jim Reilley adds bass on four), while his distress...
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