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| Artists: | Mike Heffley |
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| Title: | The Oily Daze |
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| Released: | 2011 |
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Yul Agee:
The Oily Daze’s value to me lies in its documentation of the mainstream local-club-gig sound Heffley had striven for and cultivated since his first adolescent years as a player; we hear that sound at its best, most developed and, to some degree, original, with equally masterful and distinctive bandmates--just before it would be swept away by the rush of the Northwest Creative Orchestra and subsequent Braxton years of the first half of the ‘90s. Demos overviews those years, and those since, up to the present.
The two CDs pair up well because the (chronological) first constitutes the seeds of the second’s various and wilder flowers and fruits. They make less sense as even home-grown saleables, both because of the personal as well as the copyright issues of our concern. Both present challenges even more thorny and awkward than those posed by the other covers of copyrighted material, thus also making them both not worth trying to hear (Heffley’s position) while even more worth discussing (my position).
Heffley’s agenda for them to remain unposted was mitigated by a compromise that would honor my agenda, of full exegesis: an interview with him about them both, in which we touch on the individual tracks a bit, and much more...
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Tracklisting of HR027
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