Blu as in Blu-Ray? Wav as in audio file format? But no. It’s a decoy like Jason Lytle, Grandaddy’s big dick. An abbreviated snub. So let’s correct: Blu as in bluegrass, Wav as in new wave. Banjo and synths on the electro veranda. For more than 30 years (and eight albums), the band from Modesto, California (where the film American Graffiti was shot) defies definitions and tinkers with its fusions. Where beauty flirts with strangeness, Grandaddy creates his world. The group lives here in a place where the ancestral acoustic instrumentation of Appalachia rubs shoulders with the keyboards of a supposedly new time. It gives simple and beautiful melodies, lost in space (or the desert): for example, Cabin in My Mind and his pedal steel on sumptuous bed next to each other Long As I’m Not the Oneits little artificial notes and its twang immense. In summary, a song title is worth all the explanations: Let’s Put this Pinto on the Moon. The most beautiful ? That could be.
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