BOB URH AND THE BARE BONES
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Member Since 6/12/2006 Band Website http://www.ultraproductions.org/ Band Members Bob Urh: lead Vocal,Guitar,Percussion,organ, Drums, Mayan flute
Greg Clarke: Drums, Percussion
Tony Matura: Vocal, Melobar,baritone, Guitar,Blues harp
Ed Smith: Guitar
Kyle Dollinger: Organ, Drums
Tara McMunn: Bass, Organ, b.vocals
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Senor Urh is best known for his stints as the leading light of raucous garage rebels such as Ultra 5 and Zero Child, New York heathen rocker types who managed to bridge the worlds of camp and the Cramps with the Detroit-dirge of the Stooges. This outing finds him personal and lo-fi, using basement tape possibilities to explore Jeffrey Lee Pierce landscapes of mutant blues punk, esoteric ramblings, and haunted hootenannies. “Iron City Blues” is a crunchy, layered cocoon of mystic words about suns, moons, and industrial landscapes set to churning guitar, restrained earthy vocals, rattling shakers, and interwoven solos. “Ramblin Man” comes on slow and poetic, like a noir nightscape at first, with a tambourine setting the minimal Velvet Underground pace, though eventually a free jazz slide guitar seems to stir at the end. The acoustic art shroud of “Black Black Widow” is humid and gothic – imagine Nick Cave on Quaaludes recounting the folklore of spiders on a ratty porch in Mississippi. Some 1960’s garage rock underlines “Zombi-fied,” revealing Urh’s taste for the 13th Floor Elevators and Link Wray, mixed with an equal love for mondo horror movies. “There She Is” sounds like a spare, kitchen sink love poem stolen from the mid-1960’s Rolling Stones, before psychedelic sideswiped them. Other standouts include the bareboned “Boom Boom A Zoom Zoom,” with its lingering swampiness and lurid New Orleans swaying, and the stream-of-consciousness “No Matter What,” which reveals that his “heart’s cut out.” Then he offers the slow lumber of “I’m Sick” while stripping down into a casual carnality (“I’m sick, how about you?”). Though this all might be a different musical face than the Au Go Go punk of the Ultra 5 and the New York dirty boulevard voodoo of Zero Child, the album is
naked, candid, and raw – both vulnerable and quietly volatile.
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BOB URH & THE BARE BONES "SWAMP-O-DELIC" CD
http://www.terrascope.co.uk/Reviews/Rumbles_August08.htm
Raw as hell, the garage blues, country twang of Bob Urh and the Bare Bones are primitive and visceral, sounding far better when turned up really fucking loud. On his latest album “Swamp O Delic”, bob roars through 15 distorted stompers and howling laments including the cramps-like “Zombie-fied” and a heart of darkness cover of “Rambling Man”. One for those almost empty bottle moments, a glorious reminder of the spirit of rock and roll.
Review: SWAMP-O-Delic (CD | Green Cookie | greencookie.gr | 36:45)
Artist: BOB URH AND THE Bare Bones
Ox-fanzine / Issue 78
Oh dear, but it has since someone hard ... Bob Urh, frontman of the New York Garagefuzzer ULTRA 5, has a huge blues. And what can you do? Quite simply: frustration of the soul to play and that goes best with todtraurigen little ditty, delicately plucked at the Akustikklampfe. This represents one then the professional eight-track machine to "host", and off you go. URHS Lamentos are usually fairly little discernible structure, it acts almost as if he is so quietly just before the night is out improvise. "Swamp-O-Delic" is an unusually captivating album has become. It kindles although only after several attempts, but then the attraction is the stronger (7) (Gereon Helmer)
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http://www.ox-fanzine.de/reviews/rid/62149/bob_urh_and_the_bare_bones-swa.23.html
BOB URH & THE BARE BONES
Swamp O Delic - CD
This is quite different than the last record I heard by Bob. I don't remember if he had a posse with him last time, but The Bare Bones this time is one of those me, myself and I sort of deals. Bob plays and sings all the parts and probably operated the tape machine too. Some of the songs are filled out a bit, but most are stripped to the primer coat meanderings through Bob's twisted mind with nothing but his agitated voice, squeaky harp and tortured guitar to guide you. Various levels of tape hiss inform the listener that one song is ending and a new one is starting. Bob's obsessions include Zombies and walking bones. Fifteen tracks of dirty experimental blues rambling including two versions of a number called "Boom Boom a Zoom Zoom." Primal stuff. (Green Cookie Records - www.greencookie.gr)
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BOB URH & THE BARE BONES "SWAMP-O-DELIC" CD (NEW)
United States' garage-punk-blues icon Bob Urh (ex The Ultra 5) outstanding new album. Something between Robert Johnson, Velvet Underground, Johnny Thunders and the Rolling Stones' "Exile On Main Street. Add to that mix some voodoo vibe and you get the picture. One of the finest records to come out lately from an underground hero.
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BOB URH & THE BAREBONES HOODOO GARAGE (CD/GREEN COOKIE) reviewed by Jurgen Dignef for Goddeau (translated excerpt) Hoodoo Garage is a record by a extremely talented singer-songwriter, who presents us with all thats essential in 50 years of rocknroll history. Urh is a child of rocknroll in all its aspects and Hoodoo Garage is the perfect reflection of such.
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BOB URH AND THE BARE BONES
BOOM BOOM A ZOOM ZOOM B/W RAMBLIN MAN
ULTRAPRODUCTIONS.ORG
I LOVE THIS URH GENT!
CREEPIEST HANK WILLIAMS COVER SINCE THE SNEEZY WATERS MOVIE
ABOUT HANK.
FUZZ OVERDOSE REVIEW 2009
Green Cookie Records
Those who know Bob Urh from his previous ventures with Fuzz kings the Ultra V, are in for a surprise. For Swamp o Delic, Bob ditched his fuzztone and black moptop to play the blues. Recorded and played on his own over a six month period, this record is full of broken blues, outta tune Americana, and the most primitive rock'n'roll this side of the Cramps. Hasil Adkins, Junior Kimbrough, Suicide and the Velvet Underground, all come into play here, messed up to the kind of alcoholic depression only late night jams with yourself can give you. That said, Swamp O Delic, is an aquired taste, due to the no-fi sound quality and the sometimes sketchy playing, but give it some time and it will grow into a perfect companion for your own empty bottle moments. Coming from Green Cookie records this Cd features some nice Dia De Los Muertos graphics and a great Swamp-Zombie sleeve.
http://www.fuzzoverdose.com/webzine/reviewsdetails.aspx?review=19
RUMBLE SKUNK ZINE 2007
BOB URH & THE BARE BONES – “Hoodoo Garage” (Green Cookie Rec.)
To carry out his voodoo-blues plan Bob Urh formed The Bare Bones! Think Hank Williams, early Stones and Velvet Underground, Lux Interior, Kim Salmon, Jeffrey Lee Pierce (at his solo-career), the hypnotic stuff of Thin White Rope and you’ll get the bus that drives you wild through the cemeteries & the valleys of “Dead Man” at The Bare Bone-route! A long time ago I was watching a couple of B-movies highlighted by “The Killer Shrews”, “King Of The Zombies” & “The Brain That Wouldn’t Die”! At “The Killer Shrew’s-end” I put on my compact-player this disc and the trip continued via the swamp-voodoo-blues shots of “Bad World Revisited”, “Cracker Daddies And Crocodiles”, “Pretending”, “Wonderful”, “The Sky Is Crying”, “Graveyard Shift”, and “After The Sun”!!! To be continue… You gotta get this disc, a bottle of tequila & get your kicks on The Bare Bones twist! (S.P.)
BOB URH BONES AND THE RARE-SWAMP - O-Delice "
edited by Massimo Argo 20 September 2008
(GREEN COOKIE RECORDS 2008) ?truly special album of a particular type, Bob URH, American struggling with a guitar and little else, published by a label greca, this is beautiful (too is the ugly) of globalization. Melancholic music, evil, a desert drinking whiskey while listening to a scorpion the White Stripes, waiting for the soul of the coyote. ?Mr. URH defines swap - or - Delic its sound, and no one can give the wrong. Everything is distorted the nucleus, and the guitar becomes voice and the voice instrument. Bob URH only, but many spirits run close to him, and sing with him. cd is a very particular, is sick blues, sometimes the songs are lost in the air and seems to see a man with his guitar, lost in the voodoo ritual for another win by sunset. ?boulders ?www.myspace.com / boburhhandtherarebones ?http://colorcookies.moonfruit.com
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BOB URH & THE BARE Bones - Swamp o DELIC
USA, California, a place where Bob and company come with a CD that rescues, as it says, the roots of rock from the intermingled with the 60's Psychobilly, although I personally fell on the labels you call "psycho - blues, quiet music to listen and to travel between his lyrics are full of madness, murder, bones and moral decadence, the plate contains 15 tracks recorded live and some others only with a console KCT, giving him even more this atmosphere of antiquity and sound Clearly without losing detail of what makes this recommended ¿songwriter?.www.ultraproduction.org
www.myspace.com / boburhandthebarebones
http://beneficiointerno.blogspot.com/2008/03/bob-urh-bare-bones-swamp-o-delic-usa.html
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Bob Urh And The Bare Bones have released the sort of album that creeps up on you, bit by bit and catches you unaware. In the end you find yourself listening over and over to catch all the nuances. The band has an immediately identifiable style, yet no two songs on the album are alike. The overall style is skeletal in the sense that notes stand on their own; there is no clutter. Songs are sometimes feral, sometimes mysterious, always beautifully structured. Ry Cooder's country inflected blues style seems to have influenced the band, as has The Velvert Underground, perhaps Willy DeVille, and certainly The Stones. As expected, I have got very good responses from my listeners whenever I've played the album on my shows.
Barb Wire WLUW 88.7 Chicago
"one of the greatest records of 2005!!!!
this record bridges the gap between real roots music and 60, psycho!"
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MAXIMUM ROCK N ROLL
PROCLAIM THE BARE BONES
"DARK AND SWAMPY"!
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BOB URH AND THE BARBONES HOODOO GARAGE (CD/GREEN COOKIE) reviewed by Paul van de Gehuchte for Rock Tribune (translated excerpt) Names that spring to mind while listening to Hoodoo Garage are Howe Gelb (Giant Sand), Lux Interior (The Cramps) and Jon Spencer. Singer-guitarist Bob Uhr takes no chances while creating the most authentic sound possible. Beware for the voodoo of Hoodoo Garage, the perfect soundtrack for an explicit, low-budget, roadmovie.
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LOWCUT
Bob Urh and the Bare Bones Boom Boom a Zoom Zoom/Ramblin Man 7
2 songs by Bob Urh accompanied by the Bare Bones and it is slow, hypnotic and minimal and sounds like a strung out version of early Cramps with Junior Kimbrough sitting in on guitar. H. Williams Ramblin Man on the b-side lasts a little over 5 minutes and really makes the Urh-proach work wonders the way the minor riff is repeated over and over, backed up by walking bass, lazy drumming, a lonely tambourine and Mr. Urhs tortured voice. The information as to who, what, where, etc. is scarce, since the 7 came in a plain white sleeve, but the label states from the home of psycho sonic sounds galore
www.lowcut.dk
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reviewed by CARBON 14 -2006
"TWO DIFFERERENT SIDES OF MR URH AND HIS BONES
HERE,"BOOM BOOM" SOUNDS LIKE IT WAS INSPIRED BY A
DRUNKEN WARPED VERSION OF THE MUNSTERS THEME
AT 16 RPM IF PLAYED BY POISON IVY OF THE CRAMPS
IN A FIT OF LINK WRAY POSSESSION.
"RAMBLIN MAN" THE HANK WILIAMS TUNE,
IS DECONSTRUCTED TO THE POINT OF SOUNDING
NOTHING LIKE THE ORIGINAL---ALSO SLOWED DOWN
BEYOND BELIEF TO EXTRACT AS MUCH PAIN AS
AS POSSIBLE FROM WILLIAMS LYRICS"
THIS:
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BOB URH & THE BARE BONES (CD/GREEN COOKIE) reviewed by Planet Trash (translated excerpt) After hearing Hoodoo Garage by Bob Urh & The Bare Bones I can conclude that at the end of year I found a serious contender for my list of this years releases that truly turn me on. Hoodoo Garage has a rudimentary sound with minimal arrangements. Each track seems to be inspired by another classic. From Robert Johnson to The Velvet Underground and from The Gun Club to The Rolling Stones Exile On Mainstream. Hoodoo Garage ends abruptly after which I realize that Bob Urh has made a special record.
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BOB URH AND THE BAREBONES HOODOO GARAGE (CD/GREEN COOKIE) reviewed by Ewie for FileUnder (translated excerpt) These Americans, on Hoodoo Garage, manage to combine the music of The Rolling Stones and Velvet Underground. This record, full of old fashioned r&b and garagerock, charmingly rattles like theres no tomorrow and the song material is diverse and very good. Basically I hope that both Lou Reed and Mick Jagger receive a copy of this, so they can get some inspiration for one last great musical effort.
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SWAMP O DELIC
Chronicle:
Project staff and obviously filled with love, with the "Swamp Delic O" is clearly eye to the folk rock while soaking in a bluesy atmosphere. Finally, "Swamp Delic O" maintains an atmosphere of good mood with a few titles whose melodies will burn forever in our minds, I am talking about "Iron City BLUESHIT, the very gloomy" The heart and its beautiful melody line on chorus or even the most emotional "No Matter What" and sulfur "Black Black Widow" that alone sums up the style of Bob Urch! The combo of course address some winks to other tyles as pop or Cajun, changing styles on an axis minimalist and freshness that make this all the titles. So if "Swamp O delic" will not experience the wrath of major studio alnum of its kind, it is certain that fans will find in these 15 titles, enough emotions to bring this disc at a high level.
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* Record Label http://www.colorcookies.moonfruit.com/ Type of Label Indie
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Recordings/Discography
SWAMP O DELIC (15 song CD, 2007 Green Cookie Records)
HOODOO GARAGE (11 song CD, 2005 Green Cookie Records)
boom boom a zoom zoom/ramblin' man ("hypnowheel"45, 2005 ultraproductions Records 002)
ADDITIONAL TRACKS ON:
LIMITED EDITION "HYPNOWHEEL" 7"ERS WITH ,RD COVERS RELEASED WITH
RUMBLE SKUNK ZINE,2008,GREECE
"I CRY EVERY NIGHT OVER YOU"
(THE BOMBING OF NEW YORK
VOLUME 11, LISTEN LOUDEST CD COMP,CROATIA, 2006)
"CRACKER DADDIES AND CROCKADILES"
(THE BOMBING OF NEW YORK
VOLUME 10, LISTEN LOUDEST CD COMP,CROATIA, 2004)
"THE SKY IS CRYING"
(THE BOMBING OF NEW YORK
VOLUME 10, LISTEN LOUDEST CD COMP,CROATIA, 2004)
"PRETENDING"
(THE BOMBING OF NEW YORK VOLUME 8, LISTEN LOUDEST CD COMP,CROATIA, 2003)
"WONDERFUL"
(LOST IN TYME MAGAZINE ,CD 1, GREECE,2004)
"RED SKIN MAN INTRO"
(THE BOMBING OF NEW YORK VOLUME 8, LISTEN LOUDEST CD COMP, CROATIA, 2003)
"GRAVEYARD SHIFT"
(THE BOMBING OF NEW YORK VOLUME 8, LISTEN LOUDEST CD COMP, CROATIA, 2003)
&
(LOST IN TYME MAGAZINE ,CD 1,
GREECE, 2004)
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