Trent Miller & The Skeleton Jive
Release Date: 08 August 2011
Label: Bucketfull Of Brains
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060174951718
Description
Dark, arresting country folk that incisively infiltrates the listener’s soul from the reluctant ‘Pete Doherty of the Americana movement’.
Following on from his self-released, widely acclaimed debut album Cerberus, Trent Miller now returns with his second collection of arresting country-folk, Welcome To Inferno Valley.
Unlike his debut, …Inferno Valley is very much a band album, comprising songs road-tested and honed at literally dozens of gigs around the London area and throughout Miller’s Italian homeland with The Skeleton Jive. Featuring the combined talents of Anders Dal (drums/guitars/backing vocals), Jim Taylor (bass), Shou Jie Eng (violin) and Jason Collins (ex-The Seers, mandolin/backing vocals), the album draws upon special guest contributions from labelmate Ben Folke Thomas (12-string), Duncan Drury (trumpet), Ruth Jacob (banjo) and Emily C Smith (backing vocals). The album was recorded at co-producer Richard Johnson’s Randomcolours Studio.
Born and raised near Turin, but based in London for some years now, Miller is strongly influenced by legendary 80s performers like Jeffrey Lee Pierce of The Gun Club and Guy Kyser of Thin White Rope (he contributed a version of ‘Timing’ to the Thin White Rope tribute album Hidden Desert), while ‘Fear Of Flyin’’, one of the album’s highlights, pays tribute to another hero Gene Clark.
Tracklisting
Richard Davies & The Dissidents
Jack Day
Benjamin Folke Thomas
The Snakes
Benjamin Folke Thomas
Edward Rogers
Trent Miller
Trent Miller & The Skeleton Jive
Trent Miller & The Skeleton Jive
