Cut Worms eponymous album has gained some column inches and fulsome praise in terms of the reviews it's been given recently on release. There's one reason for this. It's a product that showcases fine songwriting of the old school first and foremost. Wilco and Squeeze fans might as well head down here this very instant.
Cut Worms is really largely a Brooklyn based singer-songwriter named Max Clarke. Brooklyn is said to be a very nice place these days but Clarke's spiritual home is clearly Memphis, Tennessee and he makes little effort to disguise this yearning on his part.
On the front cover you can find him enjoying the company of his electric guitar and on the record itself he has a lot more fun with it and the Rock & Roll instruments that naturally seek out its company. That organ sound that Dylan, Al Kooper and The Band so revered between '65 and '67 feature highly. That's enough to make you know pretty much what it sounds like and whether you want to listen to it.
Ir's a record I imagine Nick Lowe would really enjoy. I certainly did, listening through to it this morning. You might too. The weekend starts here.
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