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Dex Romweber Duo featuring Jack White “The Wind Did Move”

sfilzen — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 16:12:56 +0000

Dex Romweber Duo featuring Jack White “The Wind Did Move” b/w “Last Kind Word Blues” 2009. Third Man Records. Earlier this week Dex Romweber Duo’s drummer, Sara Romweber (Dex’s older sister) died at age 55. In the 80′s she was part of Let’s Active who were popular on the indie/college radio scene and opened for R.E.M. “The Wind Did Move” is a blues/Americana-leaning rockabilly scorcher with backup whoops and hollers, as well as “sawing wood” by White. “Last Kind Word Blues” is a more sedate and soulful bluesy number with an old-timey saloon flavor. It’s a cover of the song originally recorded by Geeshie Wiley, recorded in Grafton, WI for Paramount Records in 1930. Whether it was Dex or Jack who chose this, I don’t know, but Jack White has had a fascination with Paramount Records, putting out a couple of massive and expensive box sets: The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records – which I’d like to note is the same title as a grad school paper I wrote about Paramount back in the late 90′s that was published in the Wisconsin Magazine of History Vol 82, #2, Winter 1998-1999. (Doubt he read it, but maybe!)

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Dex Romweber Duo “Live at Third Man Records”

sfilzen — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 21:45:53 +0000

Dex Romweber Duo “Live at Third Man Records” 2010. Third Man Records. Roots rock/rockabilly revival with deep scratch Cash vocals. Dex, formerly of the influential (if not commercially successful), Flat Duo Jets, and his sister Sara, former drummer of Let’s Active, team up for a live performance of bluesy, surfy and country-infused songs at Jack White’s Third Man Records in Nashville, recorded live to tape on February 4th, 2010. Especially manically surfy is the instrumental “Curse of the Little Bastard,” which Dex introduces as being named after James Dean’s car. “Homicide,” which would appear on their 2011 release Is That You in the Blue? is a cover of Myron Lee’s classic rockabilly tune. “Is It Too Late?” is a twangy weeper ballad off of the 2009 album Ruins of Berlin. “Grey Skies” and “Love Letters” also appear on Live at Third Man but sadly Cat Power (Chan Marshall) does not feature on “Love Letters” as she does on the studio release.

Run off grooves: Side A – “That guys gotta stop. Hell see us” (I think a missing apostrophe?) Side B – “Twas a rainy February night”

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