Ben Swank Discography of CDs

Ben Swank CD discography Contemporaries of the White Stripes, Detroit's bass guitar-less Soledad Brothers aspire to the grainy, trebly, raw rock sound perfected by the Stooges in the 1960s and early '70s, taking their musical cues from '60s garage rock, the MC5, and the early Rolling Stones. "Downtown Paranoia Blues" and "Crooked ...

Ben Swank discography It has been the goal of countless bands to re-awaken the energy of Exile on Main Street-era Rolling Stones into some workable modern sound. Many have tried, but only a few have come close. Detroit's punk-blues upstarts Soledad Brothers have made a brisk career of just such imitation ...

Ben Swank albums Guitarist/vocalist Johnny Walker presents a faux southern minister's drawl for much of the record, and while some of the tracks become repetitive ("Gospel According to John"), they are saved by Walker's Delta bluesman-derived style of fingerpicking between the bass and treble strings on his guitar. This helps to ...

Ben Swank CD discography This Detroit-bred garage rock outfit (whose first two records were produced by Jack White) chose the legendary Gold Dollar club in their home town as the source for a quintessential live document. Backed by the occasional horn section, and boasting songs largely absent from more formal releases, LIVE ...

Ben Swank music CDs While suddenly every garage rock band in creation has started wailing the blues, the Soledad Brothers, who've become one of the leading lights of the roots-punk movement, have decided to try a different angle in their stripped-down blend of raw rock and raw blues on their third studio ...

Ben Swank songs If Mr. David Viner's self-titled debut album is anything to go by, then the cross-pollination of Detroit and London's garage rock scenes is yielding some fun and occasionally exciting results. It's true that Viner's music is closer to New Orleans-inspired blues than the blues-garage fusion of the leading lights of these ...