RHYTHM OIL Released 1993
Word pictures playing through my mind as I listen to the refreshing, earthy, panting sound of Rhythm oil. I believe that Michael Messer + Terry clarke didn't do a lot of vocal overdubbing. What I hear is the real thing. Bare-bones blues gut-bucket rural rock. This record carried me away to a long

time ago, down a delta dirt road to a land of my musical good-old-daysing.
Johnny Cash
ps. don't squeeze the trigger, if you can't stand the recoil
Hendersonville, Tennessee Dec 1992

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