Check out this southern rock tune “Outlaw” from Mammoth’s 1981 self-titled LP
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The Mammoth LP was recorded in 1981 at Relayer Studios in DeLand, Florida with the two guitars, bass and drums quartet line-up sounding like it could have been a decade earlier. Buzz Fetters on lead guitar, Bill Abell on rhythm guitar, Joey Costa on bass and Ron Herman on drums… with everybody contributing to the vocals. Rather than having a strong up front emotive singer the lead vocals here are multi-tracked and integrated into the songs with plenty of attitude but also a genre-transcending presence… you can imagine the vocal ambience working in punk, glam, even psychedelic contexts. Mammoth have a sound informed by roots music but it is really in the rear-view mirror the way they roll.
OUTLAW has a wry sense of humor in the way the words unfold as the band pulls some ZZ Top stylin’ out of their bag of tricks. Gibbons level articulate leads unwind over some seriously dynamic chord changes. The lyrics are a hoot, “I’ve been running so long I don’t know right from wrong… what are you gonna do when they find you, what are you gonna tell your ma… now that they’re calling, now that they’re calling, now that they’re calling you outlaw” and “there’s talk in the air, the sheriff says to beware, he’s calling you an outlaw”… the way the lead and rhythm guitar work together here flashes on Roky Erickson and Bleib Alien, too!
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