Trailer Park Rangers August 11, 2006

The Trailer Park Rangers are a melding of so many influences that they truly defy description. They've foiled the pigeonhole fairy as successfully as any band ever has. For fifteen years it's been so. If there ever is a category for this unique brand of avant garde country, jazz pop music it's name will have to be as inventive and evolving as David T.Carter's fertile imagination.




They sound like a long, cool drink of water after too much time in the musical desert created by radio. The lyrical content and intent of Carter is in the spirit of a Trojan horse at every turn. What lies waiting within the metaphor is a self-scripted mini movie written and directed by "everyman" in response to his or her own take on the canvas which Carter provides. A musical "nesting doll". Each contains another. This is music that triggers your imagination and allows you to draw your own conclusions.




The only categorization that this band aligns themselves to is the one that they have created, which is as yet, unnamed. Disparate terms as "country goth", "cowboy carnival music on acid", "cow punk", "hillbilly jazz", "flat key twang", "country cabaret", "circus-flavored" have been used in attempts to describe them. The cinematic aspects of the music bring to mind David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock, Ernest Hemingway and a dozen spaghetti westerns with a landscape that only Peter Weir could paint. The zane with which the stories are told never loses touch with the gravity that inspired their creation




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