小朋友...粉厲害喔 布魯斯
28 Jul 2008
Label: Sunday Best
London,
United Kingdom
The band members of Kitty, Daisy and Lewis are:
Kitty, Daisy, Lewis, Graeme and Ingrid.
1. Going Up The Country
2. Buggin’ Blues
3. Polly Put The Kettle On
4. Honolulu Rock A Roll A
5. I Got My Mojo Working
6. Mean Son Of A Gun
7. Hillbilly Music
8. Mohair Sam
9. Ooo Wee
10. Swinging Hawaii
Some music is just like magic. As a critic or an analytical music fan, you hear something that moves you, and you pull it apart to see what it’s made of, and, most of the time, you rationally conclude that it contains various musical references, outstanding performances and thematic ideas that force you to react favourably. But occasionally, something comes along that defies logic; that is, in theory, derivative, unoriginal, conservative, but hits you as thrilling, modern and different to everything else you want, to love.
Three London teenagers playing blues and rockabilly cover versions in a manner so Luddite that it’s as if Cliff Richard never happened, Kitty, Daisy & Lewis should be no more than a cute thing that makes all the parents go ‘Ahhh!’ at a local community street party. But, instead, they’re a brilliant recording act. It makes no bloody sense, quite frankly.
Formed in 2002 at a jam in a Kentish Town pub, and mentored by their parents and Radio 1 DJ and Bestival promoter Rob Da Bank, Kitty (15), Daisy (18) and Lewis (17) Durham are devotees of the music and fashion of the pre-Beatles era, and merge R’n'B and hillbilly swing with a weird mixture of total commitment and sneering insouciance that makes them sound alien. Their debut album - 30 minutes, 10 songs, eight of them covers - sounds like a bunch of tiny children and ancient American street minstrels busking in your living room, complete with popping mics, bum notes, up-and-down sound levels and playing that wanders in and out of focus like a sleepy drunk trying to keep up with the plot of Prison Break.
Their two originals - ‘Buggin’ Blues’ and ‘Swinging Hawaii’ - are exactly the same as the Sonny Boy Williamson and Johnny Horton and Muddy Waters covers, and every time the extraordinary Kitty swaggers into a smoky lead vocal the air is filled with a joy so boundless that you actually start to agree with that Labour git who ordered us all to cheer up and appreciate how great life in Britain is.
Kitty, Daisy & Lewis transcend everything ordinary about pop, including any spurious Quest For Authenticity, and I can’t give you any solid reason why. They’re just a gift to those of us that still believe in magic.
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