Dave Arcari - Got Me Electric [Album]

Buzz Records

March 28, 2009, 07:23 PM

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Captain Beefheart’s impact on the music world is incalculable (and not just because of his utterly superb choice of name). While general society has squashed him down for midnight meanders and those evenings when the crazy needs to get released, the pioneers of music are still very much coloured with the bruising of the great man’s ugly stick. The music might not be pretty but god damn it’s real!

Since his famed but not famous voice went into hibernation in the 80s, Captain Beefheart’s style, rooted in the imitation of blues singers, has been fostered and bastardised across the genres. However, in some wiggy cross-over of fate, the very essence of what was lost to the world 20 years ago has actually been alive and well sheltered unbeknownst in a new outlet for decades now. A Scottish slide guitarist with both feet planted on the sturdy backs of punk trash country embodies what Captain Beefheart would have been if he was born in Scotland where whisky and gravel would have eroded his barmy. Dave Arcari, a solo artist skid-steering his way around the world with his pre-war delta blues/trash country hybrid, is the plinking, funky Scottish growl coming through a bottleneck steel guitar to Captain Beefheart’s legacy.

Arcari’s album “Got Me Electric”, which was officially released on 2 March 2009 through his own personal label Buzz Records, is an offering of dirty, messy slide blues, played over a dusty stereo in a bar where men are still men and boys are relegated to the kitchen with the women. Held in high regard by his peers, Steve from Seasick Steve has been quoted as saying:

If nothing else, Arcari has raised the stakes in the Farley household. In a family where points are given to the person who spouts forth the most inane musical facts at the dinner table, it is difficult to remain top dog for long. Some years ago a full ten points were awarded to my dad for a Chinese chamber choir’s rendition of some of Pink Floyd’s lesser known B-Sides and he has been dining out on the victory for too long. Arcari definitely doesn’t fit into that sort of category, his music is far too listenable, but there is something poetically kooky about a solo blues slide guitarist from Scotland, especially one who puts the words of Robert Burns to delta trash country music.

“Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!” … set to the sound of a blues guitar. Arcari’s obvious pride for his country’s heritage has given Robert Burns, Scotland’s national poet, a new edge that would have him high-fiving himself in his grave. Arcari definitely has the edge to give. Rumoured to be the embodiment of the excess blues denotes, Dave Arcari responds thus:

And that is really what his album is about: working hard to party hard. It’s great, dirty, high-speed blues played by a big man with big shoes. I read an article in Esquire magazine a few days ago that lamented the fact that nobody plays Blues anymore. Well here you go boys … the very essence of blues delivered with panache and a growl. I reckon he is worth at least 5 points at the Farley dinner table!

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