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13 tracks

52:01

1	Cortez & Pizarro	3:41
2	Heathrow	3:53
3	Slide	4:32
4	Beautiful Stranger	3:41
5	Curandera	4:49
6	Starfish Sunflower	4:50
7	Picture of You	4:17
8	Caroline	4:29
9	Sister Rosa	3:37
10	Alabama	4:06
11	Electric	4:34
12	Deathwish Debbie	2:57
13	Walking Shoes	2:35

Album description

Interstate Medicine features 12 tracks that roll out like a weekend getaway in your older brother’s Camaro, cruising from wind-in-your-hair guitar anthems to moody, late-night reveries with stops for gas and cold beer along the way. Bandleader Michael Baker’s exceptional lyrics and knack for rough-hewn hooks invite comparisons to Ryan Adams, Tom Petty and Dire Straits, but Slim ups the ante with virtuoso musicianship and rock’n’roll muscle. The result is a highly personal brand of American music, packed with equal parts soul, smarts, and passion.

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DoozerD

It Works

09/01/08

The balance of the raspy voices, ethnic tones and solid rhythms all combine for a cohesive experience. While not edgy on any genre scope, I fear this will drop to obscurity between the more defined areas of popular music and audiences (that's not to be confused with the term "Pop" which is total crap.
That being said, I'm impressed with the range of ability this band delivers throughout the album. My biggest suggestion is to up the ante and become bolder with your genre ranges. Put it in our faces! Carry on.

Morgaine

Wonderful, inventive track #1, "Cortez & Pizarro", rest Ugh

23/09/08

User tags: fusion spanishguitar rockguitar moorish thematic storytelling historic rockbuildup onetrackwonder appliestrack1

I was immediately captivated by the Spanish guitar intro in Cortez & Pizarro. Then the powerful rock guitar kicked in and I said to myself "Oh, this is something special, a great fusion". And indeed it was, an unusual and interesting number that exhuded individuality, full of rock buildup and power yet launching proudly off a rich platform of moorish influence. Absolutely wonderful.

So I listened to the rest of the album too, but alas what was promised in the first track did not materialize again, except for a few seconds of gypsy violin. A quiet pop album, going absolutely nowhere. I had been promised far more by track #1, but the promise was empty.

Summary: Excellent starting track, but I'm afraid the rest did nothing for me. Some of the rest rivalled the emptiest pop you can get.

I echo DoozerD's comment: Be bolder. The world doesn't need more light cruising pop, and you won't be remembered for it. Clearly you have the potential to do something more ambitious.

I don't really know how to rate this album, because for me Cortez & Pizarro rates an 8 or 9 easily, while the rest of the tracks barely rate 1-3 from me. I've decided not to let album averaging rule me though, and it's better to be generous anyway, so I'm rating the first track alone and pretending that the rest of the album doesn't exist. If I don't do this then the magnificence of track #1 will be lost.

Well done Slim, great track. Be bolder.

open

sounds professional

14/07/07

What's most impressive to me is the professional sounding quality of this album. Recording, instrumental ability and the complete and powerful sounding mix. The songs have a nice quality to them; although they're very pop-sounding, they're not as dull and obvious as that description normally implies. You can tell a lot of work and practice has gone into this sound and it's most impressive.

minette88

bravo !

05/06/07

Des sons harmonieux et une voix magnifique !
Que dire de plus ? Cet album est un réel plaisir pour les oreilles et le coeur.
On se laisse facilement entrainer par le rythme et c'est une réelle détente que de l'écouter.

musictomyears

Excellent, Music, With Great Tracks & Vocals.

28/05/09

Excellent, music, with great tracks and vocals that are very distinctive, male, hoarse sounding solid vocals, that seem to set the bar high for this awesome, catchy, very interesting, classy,indie, rock album. With great music to accompany all the tracks, a good guitarist and drummer to name just two.

zotz

I will be listening to more

17/03/09

Curandera has a somewhat haunting quality to it. Also to me it has a bit of a Hootie sound to the vocals.

I like the line:

"She drops the needle / The music takes over."

drew

matthewthegreat

Good album

17/03/09

I really liked the track "Cortez & Pizarro" The rest of the album good but wasn't outstanding. If this was a proprietary album the only song I would buy is "Cortez & Pizarro"

Thanks for sharing!

minozake

More positive than negative, but...

07/10/08

This might be a start on good musicianship, but it needs new things that I haven't hear before. Lyrics don't make a song if the music itself is generic or subpar.

It's good if one is a diehard fan of classic rock, but nothing overly special on this. Average with some benefit of the doubt. Keep trying.

dstructor

Interstate medicine indeed hehe

06/10/08

I didn't understand why some didn't like the rest but Cortez & Pizzaro was ZE SHIZZIT !!!
I loved it

Somehow reminded me of Poets Of The Fall; maybe because the lead voice sounds the same as the lead in POTF

Anyway, i'm on Heathrow right now and it sounds really cool; just the stuff that cools you off on the road but at the same time makes you feel alive again

Lyrics and rhyming could use a little shining and it would be awesome but over all...Old-skewl baby

PS: Couldn't help but think of muscle cars listening to it LOL