Spaghetti, Eddie
Extra Sauce
In 2003, Motherfuckers Be Trippin' revived the Supersuckers nameplate. Issued through their own Mid Fi imprint, it
riffed and smirked with renewed zing and estimable sleaze. That air of lovable gracelessness carries over to Suckers'
main man Eddie Spaghetti's first solo effort, a messy and grinning bucket of covers called Sauce. In his liner notes,
Spaghetti trashes the whole idea of solo records, especially those that consist solely of covers. But in typical
fashion, that doesn't stop him from doing his own. Sauce features quick and easy, largely acoustic versions of outlaw
country faves from Kris Kristofferson ("Best of all Possible Worlds") and Willie Nelson (the mirthful and giddy "Gotta
Get Drunk"). There's also a run through "Cocaine Blues," but his isn't underpinned with terror like Johnny Cash's.
Instead, Spaghetti cranks it out steely and fast, like it was the last song of the middle set in a Tuesday night dive
bar gig. He gets a tad serious -- or at least heartfelt -- with Steve Earle's "I Don't Want to Lose You Yet," but it's
back to a bleary-eyed cross of honky tonkin' and low culture slummin' for "Peace in the Valley" (originally by A3):
"Well I got ecstasy/But I need some company." That sentiment continues for "Killer Weed," the better of Spaghetti's two
originals here. As he does throughout Sauce, Eddie adopts a sort of deadpan Lee Hazlewood persona for the track -- he
might as well perch a raglan horse head on the lip of a six-foot bong. Sauce isn't country, and it doesn't rock like his
day job. But from end to end, it drips with the same dastardly good-time juice that defines the best Supersuckers stuff.
Written by Johnny Loftus, borrowed from AllMusic.com
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Format
LP - 1 disk
Release
04-02-2022
Label
Item-nr
553234
EAN
0832915014717
Availability
In stock
Tracks
Title
Artist
1
THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS
2
BOTTOM DOLLAR
3
SLEEPY VAMPIRE
4
GOTTA GET DRUNK
5
MISERY & GIN
6
LITTLE OL WINE DRINKER, ME
7
I DONT WANT TO LOSE YOU YET
8
SEA OF HEARTBREAK
9
COCAINE BLUES
10
KILLER WEED
11
PEACE IN THE VALLEY
12
BLUE SHADOWS ON THE TRAIL