Reviews
Chuckanut Drive - The Crooked Mile Home
By Boy Howdy, Nerve Magazine, April 2006
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The thing about alt-country that picks my ass is that most bands don’t have a clue about the soul. They play the twang, they bring the pedal steel and the guitjo, and forget the goddamned soul! I swear at the altar of the Lost Church of Gram’s Capo that the soul is what makes it all come into place. Where the Burrito Brothers walked Down the Dark End of the Street, the fellas in Chuckanut Drive deliver a searing concept-driven LP recorded in a church in Bellingham and produced, excellently, by Johnny Sangster. The themes of loneliness, despair, heartbreak, and separation weave in and out of the song cycle like people passing each other on a dark, shitty day. Listen to "Pittsburgh", "Juanita", "Back on the Tarmac", and "Reno To Vegas" and you’ll understand the soul of C&W ...