I wanted to feature Gilman more for what I think he and his band could become rather than where they are now. As the album promises, a lot of these songs are about fights with exes, soon-to-be-exes, and former bandmates.
Grant Gilman, formerly of Films About Penguins, has assembled a mixture of love ballads and musical social commentary with his alternative country solo debut Homewrecker. Through songs that reverberate through the human condition, Gilman’s progressive album reaches the depths of an economic slide as well as the deterioration of the human soul. Songs like “Don’t Want You Gone” display his sentimentality and clever imagery while infused with the everyman quality he so accurately captures. “Younger and Limber” exemplifies the apex of Gilman’s album theme–the absolute necessity for companionship, regardless of the conditions of separation. Homewrecker is an exceptional debut filled with nothing short of promise from this prodigious young musician. –
“Listening to “Homewrecker”, the title track to Gilman’s brand new self-recorded album, is like hearing someone who’s soaked in the beer-haze country-punk attitude of Stranger’s Almanac-era Whiskeytown and the ragged, fiddle-driven “Give Back The Key To My Heart” from Uncle Tupelo’s Anodyne and spit them back out with comparable vigor. The album continues in the same vein – hard living, poor choices, drunken apologies, empty promises, the works. It’s a promising debut from an artist who sports his influences with aplomb…” -From Pop Headwound .. ..
“This winter, singer-songwriter Grant Gilman released Homewrecker, a fourteen track break-up letter that is a perfect companion to all that hurts in the game of love. Straight out of Terre Haute, Indiana, Gilman’s solo debut sounds eerily similar to some of Ryan Adam’s early work by the Patty Duke Syndrome; country music with some serious indie rock sensibilities. What I like about Grant is that he’s not giving us any bullshit. This isn’t a kid singing about how much ass he gets, or how much whiskey he can drink. He’s a guy who’s had some troubles in the game of love and he’s not afraid to spell it out for you. It can be easy for young country singers to write music that isn’t very honest. The genre as a whole celebrates the dustiest of characters, hell-bent on destruction and mayhem. Some young writers overplay the “whole” traveling musician card a bit hard when they first start out, spinning more yarn than a six-year old. Gilman isn’t singing about something he’s not, or hasn’t experienced yet.”
Members: Truckerspeed is: Grant Gilman- Guitar/Vocals Dave Lawson – Guitar John Zeps – Bass Dustin Carmichael – Drums
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