Blood Fire & Rainwater - Don't Hoodoo Me
PREMIERE | BLOOD FIRE & RAINWATER UNVEIL ‘DON’T HOODOO ME’
Meet Blood Fire & Rainwater, a muddy swamp blues outfit who describe their music as “blues from the gutter,” and premiere the music video for “Don’t Hoodoo Me,” the title track from their latest album on Redact Records LLC via Bungalo/Universal Music Group.
Blood Fire & Rainwater
From Tacoma, Washington, Blood Fire & Rainwater is made up of Tony Dauley (drums, percussion) and Jack Rainwater (guitar, vocals). Back when they both started out in music, Tony was pushing the rhythm for die-hard punk bands, while Jack was playing rock and roll in clubs from Seattle to San Diego.
Once the two hooked up as Blood Fire & Rainwater, the blending of their backgrounds resulted in a primal viscous sound, a sound merging the harsh energy of punk with the fundamental force of rock – the blues. It’s a thick, gooey, smoldering sound, hot, blue, and righteous.
Influences like Howlin’ Wolf, Bo Diddly, the Adolescents, and Agent Orange are present in the duo’s sound, along with filaments of God’s own music – Mississippi blues. When the sonic stimuli collide, the effect is classic blues rock rife with gut-wrenching soul, dripping with grungy tangs.
When the sonic stimuli collide, the effect is classic blues rock rife with gut-wrenching soul, dripping with grungy tangs.
“Don’t Hoodoo Me” opens on a rasping dirty guitar imparting wicked seething blues tones. When Dauley’s Thor-like crunching drums enter, the tune takes on a cutting punch, raw and primordial. The measured rhythm, like a Texas two-step, bends and flexes, but never breaks.
Rainwater’s hoarse scratchy tenor infuses the lyrics with chafing textures and abrading timbres, akin to a file scraping away slivers of steel from an iron chute, while simultaneously thrusting out visceral hints of uncooked simmering carnality teetering on the brink of sensuality.
“I woke up / About twelve o’clock / I heard the sound / Of my front door lock / Look out my window / Tell you what did I see / I saw my baby / Making a midnight creep / Won’t you tell me, baby / What’s there in our backyard / Well now I think I know / Why life’s been getting so hard / Baby don’t you do that / Mama don’t you hoodoo me.”
Vaguely reminiscent of ZZ Top, only more rough and ready, Blood Fire & Rainwater deliver industrial-strength blues full of electrifying sensations. This band more than has it going on! They really kick it out.
