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Americana, Folk. Een dikke 9,5 op zijn rapport

Alex Dupree has a way with words, and Thieves deals with a period of time when there were words and worlds spinning out with a vengeance, the Trump years. The stories he tells are those of people, some on the fringes and some driven to them by their experiences. These are cinematic tales set to music, the sounds of an artist who becomes a country chameleon. What initially seems tinged with a sense of heartland sadness becomes more universal as instruments and songs build to quiet crescendos.

The simple guitar strum that opens “Low Country Blues” creates a laconic lament, yet the pedal steel feels more than a bit like strings, shifting the tone as Dupree sings “Coulda shown you a good time she said, but I doubt it/ I lost my pride and I can’t see a damn thing without it/ I want you or I don’t want nothing.” It feels a bit like a Humphrey Bogart in “Casablanca” The only thing missing is Dooley Wilson playing Sam.

Listening to Dupree, really listening, reveals tales worthy of a novelist, yet what takes them 200 pages, he does in less than five minutes. It’s a riveting listen if you’re willing to commit to it. One that takes you on transformational journeys to locales around the globe. The percussion opening “Missouri Moon” doesn’t even begin to prepare you for the opening lines, “We took what we could carry when the holy city feel/ The road across the prairie was curving like a shell/ I had to try and sell my memory to strangers.” Nothing is quite as straightforward as it seems, and you don’t want to miss a minute of it.

Tracks:
01. Toronto Reel
02. The Seer
03. Fake Diamonds, False Powers
04. Wish You Had Got To Me First
05. The Cave
06. Missouri Moon
07. I'm Gonna Make You Mine
08. Low Country Blues
09. Lawman
10. Fortunado

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