Bloodshot Records artist: Dex Romweber Duo - Images 13 - New Release Review

I just received the newest release, Images 13, from the Dex Rommeber Duo and it's a full blown sub with everything. Opening with Roll On, an off tempo rocker with strong drumming from Sara Romweber and a driving guitar work from Dex. This track is a heavy metal/punk/surf track and I really like it! Long Battle Coming is wound much looser kind of like a blend between Johnny Cash, a classic western theme and Motorhead. Interesting touch. Baby I Know What It's Like To be Alone has a early 60's movie soundtrack feel to it, and with it's own standard for cool. The Who's So Sad About Us is a poppy tune like a mix of The Everly's, The Kinks and just 60's pop in general. Nice track with a lot of airplay potential. Prelude In G Minor is a slick instrumental with metal, rock, surf and progressive features. I like it! Blackout is an all out instrumental surf track and I am a sucker for new surf tracks. This is well done with that "Batman" like basis and simple guitar excursions. What's not to like? I Don't Want To Listen is a sappy ballad worthy of Elvis himself. You miss Elvis... here you go! Beyond The Moonlight is a straight forward rockabilly track with minimal instrumentation and authentic hand claps. Romweber tweaks up his guitar for just a moment to lay in a very simple guitar melody. Cool track. We'll Be Together Again is a well written ballad with a strong hook. Again this track could easily find it's way to the radio with it's solid melody. Blue Surf is pretty self explanatory. You like surf music...this is surf music plain and simple. Romweber really cranks the guitar up on this one and Sara is pushing all the way. Excellent! One Sided Love Affair is the best ballad on the release with a solid country style delivery and simple acoustic guitar accompaniment. Wierd (Aurora Borealis) is another track that stretches the mind with a Twilight Zone/ Outer Limits SiFi kind of sound feturing Melissa Swingle on saw. This release is serious but fun. I hope that you take the time to enjoy it.

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Dex Romweber Duo to release Images 13 on March 18 + new single and tour

DEX ROMWEBER DUO TO RELEASE IMAGES 13 ON MARCH 18

*EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE OF LEAD SINGLE “ROLL ON” LAUNCHED BY POPMATTERS

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*TOUR DATES JUST ADDED WITH REVEREND PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND AND DOM FLEMONS OF CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS

“Dex Romweber was and is a huge influence on my music. I owned all of his records as a teenager, and was thrilled at the fact that we were able to play together recently on tour. [He is] is one of the best kept secrets of the rock n roll underground.”

— Jack White

Dex Romweber Duo (https://www.bloodshotrecords.com/artist/dex-romweber-duo) is releasing a new album Images 13 on March 18 via Bloodshot Records (pre-order available here). This is the band’s third release on the label, and first following 2011’s critically acclaimed Is That You In The Blue?

http://www.popmatters.com/post/179164-dex-romweber-duo-announces-new-album-image-13-and-new-single-roll-on/

PopMatters.com announced the album’s release date and details, and are currently premiering the lead track, “Roll On.”

Listen to “Roll On” here: https://soundcloud.com/bshq/roll-on-by-dex-romweber-duo

For a quarter century, Dex Romweber has trolled the dark corners and back shelves of the haunted thrift store of Americana ephemera and honed an extraordinarily idiomatic sound, a particular and readily identifiable DEXness for those in the know. It’s a creepy doll collection of surf, proto-rockabilly, garage, dark and vengeful blues, and nobody, but nobody, plays it like Dex. First with the legendary Flat Duo Jets and now with his Duo, Dex distilled the punk ethos of less-is-more to the essential guitar/drums template. Left in the wake of his lecherous and slithery Silvertone were early acolytes like Jack White, Neko Case, and the Reigning Sound as well as a current crop of the indie pack like Ty Segall, No Age, Japandroids, and The Black Keys. All owe an unclaimed pawn ticket of debt to his sublime and spine-tingling sound. He is a live wire back to the murky, sometimes dangerous and always unpredictable headwaters of real rock and roll.

Dex, with his whip-wristed sister Sara Romweber on drums, takes Images 13 through neon-lit alleys, full of pulp fiction juvey rock, sci-fi theme songs and greasy denim hipster jive. Recorded at Rick Miller’s (Southern Culture on the Skids) Kudzu Ranch studio in North Carolina, Images 13 would make everyone from Duane Eddy to Stan Kenton to Lenny Bruce crack a smile, a joke or the seal on a fifth of rye and head for the Naugahyde ice bucket.

Dex Romweber Duo have also just announced a run of tour dates with Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band and Dom Flemons of Carolina Chocolate Drops:

BIG DAMN ROOTS REVOLUTION TOUR:

Fri March 14 – Chicago, IL – Reggie’s Rock Club ~
Sat March 15 – Ferndale, MI – Magic Bag Theatre ~
Sun March 16 – Cleveland Heights, OH – Grog Shop ~
Tues March 18 – Buffalo, NY – Waiting Room ^
Weds March 19 – Syracuse, NY – Westcott Theater ^
Thurs March 20 – Harrisburg, PA – Appalachian Brewing Company ^
Fri March 21 – Rehoboth Beach, DE – Dogfish Head Brewings & Eats ^
Sat March 22 – Harrisonburg, VA – Clementine Café ^
Sun March 23 – New York, NY – Mercury Lounge ^
Tues March 25 – Somerville, MA – Johnny D’s ^
Thurs March 27 – Washington, DC – The Hamilton ^
Fri March 28 – Pittsburgh, PA – Rex Theater ^
Sat March 29 – Erie, PA – The Crooked I ^

~ = Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Dex Romweber Duo, and Dom Flemons (formerly of Carolina Chocolate Drops)

^ = Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band and Dex Romweber Duo only

Find Dex Romweber Duo online:

http://www.ruraltone.com/dex/

https://www.facebook.com/dexromweberduo

JUNGLE DRUMS - DEX ROMWEBER DUO

Dex and Sara stepped off on their U.S. album release tour last Thursday, in Charleston, SC. We have listed the complete set of dates below – hopefully DRD will be playing a town near you!

FULL TOUR DATES – DEX ROMWEBER DUO – 2011 (more to come):

8/2	Proud Larry's	Oxford	MS
8/3	Bottletree Café	Birmingham	AL
8/4	Siberia	New Orleans	LA
8/5	Fitzgerald's Downstairs	Houston	TX
8/6	The Continental Club	Austin	TX
8/8	The Rhythm Room	Phoenix	AZ
8/10	Til-Two Club	San Diego	CA
8/11	Whiskey A Go Go	West Hollywood	CA
8/12	Thee Parkside	San Francisco	CA
8/13	St. James Infirmary	Reno	NV
8/15	World Famous Kenton Club	Portland	OR
8/16	Studio Seven	Seattle	WA
8/19	Glenwood Arts Festival - Heartland Café	Chicago	IL
8/20	Woodcrest Lanes	Union City	OH
8/21	The Tree House	Columbus	OH
9/2	Dave's Aqua Lounge	St. Petersburg	FL
9/3	Iron Horse Saloon	Ormond Beach	FL

Dex Romweber Duo, "Jungle Drums" from Bloodshot Records on Vimeo.

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Bloodshot Records: Is that You in the Blue - Dex Romweber Duo New Release Review

When you turn this on you're ready for a wild ride! Take a dash of Dexter Poindexter, a pinch of Screening Jay Hawkins, a splash of the Blasters, and a drop or two of the Ventures and stir lightly into the early rock blues and this is what you get... at least that's what I could take from it. It appears that they are having a good time and that's what's important!



Enjoy!




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