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Dirtminers is featured on Outbound Radio |
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 The musical swamp known as the Dirtminers swirls unevenly around singer/guitarist Raph (pronounced "Rayf" never call him "Ralph") Worrick. Raised in Africa , Worrick has been writing songs since he was a small child, so he really knows how to do it now. Addicted to thoroughly beaten guitars and dime store sorrow, the Dirtminers are fueled by high octane cynicism. Their shows run the gamut from minimalist to extreme -- from two lonely men with guitar and snare drum all the way up to a ten piece band in tuxes. On Meat and Electricity , their new EP/CD on Animalville Records, the band covers wide territory as well. It calls up raucous echoes of the Faces, T. Rex and Graham Parker on some songs, while summoning the spare, dark intensity of Warren Zevon or Gillian Welch on others. "Led by guitarist/singer Raph Worrick the Dirtminers prove that roots rock doesn't have to be a staid or glum affair. Indeed "The Day I Met You" probably bears more of a comparison the New York Dolls than to the stalwarts of this genre. Elsewhere on their Meat and Electricity EP they sound more traditional but with the same intensity and urgency." Mark Johnson, " Mansion On the Hill": The influences may be broad and obscure, but the music is as American as county fair carnys and rain-soaked hitchhikers. Watch for the second, full length CD in summer 2005! |
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