The 2008 debut album by Bremen-based Dad Horse Ottn, who only began making music at the age of 40 on a gifted tenor banjo, inspired by the desire to give sound to his spiritual quest. Hawkwind, Washington Phillips, and Johnny Cash accompanied him. Ottn himself sings and sounds more like a Hank Williams, who hadn't died of an overdose in the back seat of his car before his 30th birthday. Although that couldn't have been ruled out... In the rudimentary accompaniment of his songs, in the plaintiveness of his singing, the spartan intensity of white folk from the Appalachians resonates. His "basement gospel" fervently negotiates the searing self-criticism of the tormented sinner's soul, not without regularly taking a hearty swig from the bottle of dark humor. "Outsider music at its most extreme, this German band could teach its Americana musical cousins a thing or three about dark and dirty music." (Americana-UK)
01 Through The Hole 02 Gates of Heaven 03 Falling 04 Lord Must Fix My Soul 05 Black Green White 06 Were U There (in Bookholzberg) 07 Find My Body Down 08 Dried Out River 09 Away 10 Reach Out Your Hand 11 Too Close To Heaven
The Dad Horse Experience - Too Close to Heaven (CD)
