We’ve got another sneak preview from Charlie and the Foxtrots, “The Big Bad Wolf” is the latest single from their new album due out on July 8.
I chopped down the cherry tree,
Took some fruit and left the rest to bleed.
Told a fib to save my tail,
Only fooling you to fool myself.
Right from the first few bars, you know you’re not going through the same old thing. While there may be a bit of the Mumford kind of “Americana” sound blaring from the speakers, there’s some of that new-fangled Canadian Sheep Dogs kinda Southern rock thing, too.
Charlie and the boys take a mellow banjo, stand-up bass fiddle, driving electric guitars and pounding drums and throw it all in a blender with a voice (and a look) like Buddy Holly on a bender to lay some heavy shit on ya!
The arrangements are beguilingly simple yet produce a complex vibe of strong emotion. You don’t even have to pay attention to the lyric to get the vibe, but if you do… watch it, you’ll be spinning this thing over and again – just like me. All I can say is, “beware, Little Red, these guys are after your soul.”
We featured the first single from the album “Golden” a few weeks ago. You’ll find “The Man I Am” over here. Charlie and the Foxtrots have just wrapped up a tour of the Eastern states, and should be settling in back home in Nashville any day. Look forward to a live interview very soon!
Charlie and the Foxtrots are a gang of seven new-folk musicians who’ve recently been creating a lot of buzz in their local Nashville scene as well as nationally. In January 2013 Chas Wilson (vocals/guitar) recruited each of the ‘Foxtrots’ one by one into the current line up: James Varner, Matt McClure, Jeremy Webster, Andrew Mcpheters, Josh Ramos, and Rob Hutchison. Their name, Charlie and the Foxtrots came from the NATO phonetics for CF, “CharlieFoxtrot,” which is military slang for “Cluster F***;” an aptly chosen name considering the complexities of conducting a band with so many members. Charlie and the Foxtrots thread their poppy and energetic writing style in with the country and folk instrumentation reminiscent of Fleet Foxes, Mumford and Sons, Avett Brothers, The Lumineers, and Local Natives.
