Aretha Franklin, PJ Harvey, Red Collar, The Gossip, Humble Pie, Sandy Denny, The Spinns, The Water Callers, The Pneurotic's, The Kinks, The Beatles, The Who, Dry Heathens, Heart, Leslie Gore, Gang of Four, Flat Duo Jets, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Sam Cooke, Big Mama Thornton, The Rolling Stones, Patsy Cline, Tool, Drunk Drivers, Nirvana, L7, the Pixies, The Ronnettes, The White Stripes, Kings of Leon, Hammer No More the Fingers, iBig Black, Green Day, Weezer, The Replacements, Slade, Humble Pie, AC/DC, Janis Ian, The Supremes, the Buck Pets, Babes in Toyland, Hole, Joan Armatrading, Pinche Gringo, T Rex, Team Dresch, Otis Redding, Kris Kristofferson, Dolly Parton, BLue Cheer, Black Sabbath, 13th Floor Elevators, The Makeout room, Motley Crue, Hank Williams, CCR, Abba, Motorhead, The Ramones, Paul Revere & The Raiders, and Hoppie!
"Cherry Van" - Local 506 - November 16, 2007.
Sounds Like
people who have no kind of respect for authority.
From Triangle Rock 1/18/08 (R. Grady):
The new 3-piece Dirty Little Heaters will take your head clean off. If you don't have a "bands to watch in 2008" list yet, grab a post-it & write their name at the top of it.
17 DEC 2008 • by Grayson Currin,
From the start, reputation and its expectations were the albatross strung around the neck of the second incarnation of Durham's Dirty Little Heaters: Three years ago, Reese McHenry (nee Gibbs) and Melissa Thomas were a blustery ball of blooz-rock attitude, blasting out of Durham's gathering tide of idiosyncratic acts with a primal stomp and some hardened soul singing. That band's bitter breakup instigated a brief politics of division in the city's small but busy music community, especially after McHenry grafted the name to a new trio with ex-Spinn Rob Walsh and drummer Dave Perry, once of Jett Rink and Fake Swedish. Some people hoped to dismiss the band before it had even played. But if they're listening to Fatty Don't Feel Good—the too-short seven-inch debut from Heaters 2.0—those notions should be null.
A cage-rattling declaration of independence, Fatty comprises two contagious and concise jolts of analogue aggression, commanded by McHenry's howl-at-the-world voice. A-side "The Dry Wait" hits like Dead Moon straightening its aim in a direct, focused, mid-tempo, distorted pounce. McHenry—who's earned comparisons to Janis Joplin and Grace Slick but delivers with a sneer that's more confident than those comparisons suggest—offers images of flashing lights in dark rooms and big engine blocks roaring down quiet roads. "Who's your baby now?" she inquires, demanding with her tone that there'd best be just one answer. Despite its coy title, B-side "Untitled" exclaims confrontation from one groove to the next, McHenry offering advice about karma, weapons and adults stomping like little kids. It's a perfect fit, the sort of personal track that feels like a rallying call for anyone with conflict at hand. Walsh and Perry don't busy the backing. Instead, they work to drive their leader's points home, like an army bolstering a bark that you hope scene politics never silences.
Fuse—The Heaters' Reese McHenry has a voice that can rattle chandeliers at 50 paces. Not just with power but with the bluesy depth of Big Mama Thornton, where everything she sings sounds a little, well, dirty. The Heaters are now a trio: With bassist Rob Walsh (formerly of the Spinns) and Dave Perry (Jett Rink), they nod to heavy metal riffs and heavy psychedelics, all tempered by McHenry's soulful wail—unmatchable 'round these parts.
—Chris Toenes
Mortal Man is my local fave, in Wilmington, so I will put a bug in their ear about a show... here's their myspace link: http://www.myspace.com/mortalmanrocks
This may be a stupid question, but do you know about The Gossip? Heard them today on NPR and the singer seems to be mining the same powerful blues woman vein that you are.
Look forward to seeing the band soon and hearing the new album.
Hey, I just wanted say thanks for the add. Glad you liked our music! It'd be great if you could make it to a show someday but in the meantime, thanks again and have a great weekend! Boomer
Dangit, Reese, every time I see your hubby he's in the middle of changing lights or doing something where I think, "If I try to say I know Reese right now, he's going to fall and break something, and then they'll both hate meh."
Yeah, most break-ups suck. But when it's done it's done. You don't dump on someone and then start dating someone new without going through the "getting to know you" phase. You should have let DLH stay down if you didn't want to be a part of it and start a NEW band. How lame.
Hey Reese! Gimme a call this week. I still don't have your number. Or, I do...but I think I transposed some numbers, thought I remembered which ones, and now I do not. Old age!
good gawd - how long has it been that i've need my DLH fix? sooo long! and now i can't make it - but mark my words, i will be there again. in the front row. maybe even singing along (i know how your other fans love that). xo
