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Thursday, October 10,1996
Nirvana’s latest CD gives new life to old tunes
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one feet cannot be denied: they were all
about rocldn’ out And their Kurt Cobain
posthumous latest release, From the
Muddy Bank of the Wishkah, highlights
the band at its guitar-crunching best.
With 17 live-recorded tracks spanning
six years ofconcertpeiformance, Wishkah
represents all four of their studio albums.
“School,” “Drain You," “Aneurysm”
and the slightly sped-up “Smells Like
Teen Spirit" are all full of gut-wrenching
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GREG KALISS
Album Review
Nirvana
From the Muddy
Banks of the
Wishkah
Geffen Records
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pers and Pearl Jam that must have
been one heck of a concert.
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DIVERSIONS Music
The hook-laden “Been a Son” and
“Sliver,” both originally from their B
sides collection Incesticide , capture a per
fectblendofpop and punk, mixing catchy
tunes and riffs with fee crunching sound
feat made Nirvana famous. Add fee elec
tric version of “Polly,” a great cut of
“Heart-Shaped Box” (wife a rad guitar
break) and the thoroughly cool “Nega
tive Creep,” and you get near perfection.
Wife its pristine sound quality and
lack of interfering crowd noise, Wishkah
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(named for a river in Seattle, the band’s
hometown) is one of fee best live albums
in recent memory. Any complaints are
minimal. Putting “Milk It,” originally
from In Utero, on fee album is a question
able choice; it’s not feat great of a song.
And the version of “Breed,” originally
from their breakthrough Nevermind , isn’t
fee best. It’s also hard not to wish for fee
inclusion oftuneslike "Lounge Act,” “In
Bloom” and “Rape Me.”
All in all, though, this album kicks
some butt. It captures fee spirit of Nir
vana —the growls, fee shrieks, fee feed
back-drenched guitars and fee thumping
drums —and documents the group’s
growth throughout its abbreviated ca
reer. It’s simply well done.
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Jazzy Agents stretch organic
‘Roots’ while touring circuit
BY BRENT SIMON
STAFF WRITER
The comparisons to Dave Matthews
Band are inevitable. The Richmond
based band Agents of Good Roots does,
after all, feature a saxophone in fee mix
of its funky jazz rock. Likewise, it favors
ahard-driving, tour-and-conquer method
and frequently plays at Trax in
Charlottesville and fee Floodzone in
Richmond, both familiar haunts of Mr.
Matthews and his mates.
But for now, at least, Agents of Good
Roots is taking fee leisurely road to fee
big time, touring like fiends and spread
ing its organic grooves to as many dis
ciples as possible. Its energetic live shows
contain a strong rotation of between 30
and 40 tunes, a handful of which can be
found on the band’s spring debut release,
Where ’d You Get That Vibe?
“We’re a rockband first and foremost,
but wife a lot of (different) influences,
including ’6os jazz and Motown,” said
Agents drummer/vocalist Brian Jones in
a recent phone interview.
From the funky little atypical love
tune “Turtle Dove” to the trippy, riff
laden “Straight” and “Step To The
Street,” these Agents at once strongly
recall artists like 311, Love Jones and G
Love & Special Sauce, while still sound
ing remarkably original.
This can be traced in part to Andrew
Winn, fee group’s lead vocalist/guitar
ist. First of all, Winn—who has amaster’s
degree in classical guitar plays an
electric guitar wife nylon strings, which
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produces a short, crisp sound. But much
more interesting is Winn’s distinctive,
gravelly voice, fee result of an unfortu
nate run-in wife a ski pole when he was
14 years old. No doubt horribly painful
then, fee result now is a low, catchy rasp
that marks Agents’ music and carries
most of fee tunes along.
Recently fee group scored a major
coup, landing a spot on this fall’s
H.O.R.D.E. tour, performing for eight
dates along fee eastern seaboard with
Lenny Kravitz, Rusted Root and Blues
Traveler. “It was sort of like the minor
leaguers being called up to fee majors for
a few weeks, ” explained Jones. “It was a
fun time kind of like camp, but' still
definitely a learning experience.”
WeE, if touring is learning, then these
lads should be earning their doctoral de
grees any moment now. “It’s good in the
sense feat we get to play consistently and
stretch out musicaUy,” said Jones. “And
(at Trax and fee Floodzone) we work
towards feat loose feeling (for a) crowd
that already knows us. ”
Not aE work is done on fee road,
however. The Agents are also working
on putting out a Eve CD in early 1997
that wiE cover numbers from their shows
along wife a good deal of new material.
“Our studio album worked for us at
that point (of release),” Jones said. “But
hopefuEy fee new disc wiE reaEy reflect
our sound as it is now, wife more interac
tion and energy. We play so much Evje
that we’ve really developed.” Agents of
Good Roots are set to take fee stage at
10:30 tonight at fee Brewery in Raleigh.