Music — July 2, 2015 10:34 — 0 Comments

The Mama Rags Live

The Mama Rags make revival music: sonic quilts from disparate parts discarded from generations before as an attempt to rise up and be somebody. They are a thread of Led Zeppelin, a patch of cigarette ash, a bit of Bowie, a down comforter ripped to shreds by the very metal guitar strings that once provided the melodies to a song they wrote and have now forgotten. The band, to their credit, wants to feel established but there is a great deal of room for them to grow. That’s not to say they aren’t capable talents, it’s just that the quilt of time and song majesty is long, unwieldy and often misshapen.

Here, the band has recorded three live performances. Songs titled, “She Thinks She’s Got it,” “Hectic Electric” and “Borrowed Time.” They are thick with thrusts. They are whiskey-spilled, over-turned cowboy boots adorned with batches of snakeskin lace. They are the smoke and the wilting flower petals. The Mama Rags are worth the chance you may take and worth seeing whether their constructed home based on ideas of movement can morph into an even more prestigious mansion of mayhem.

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Jake Uitti is a founding editor of The Monarch Review.e

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