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• Artist: Turpentine Brothers
• Album: We Don't Care About Your Good Times
• Label: Alive
• Year of Release: 2005
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• Reviewed by: patchen on 2006-03-08

This debut by Boston trio (Guitar, Drums, Organ/Bass), Turpentine Brothers, rocks with fuzz on its mind. Mixing garage rock with a little bit of soul, the Brothers (one brother is a Sister) veer close to the edge without ever falling over. That means they tight, or as tight as you might expect from a band in which a couple members started out playing Hasil Adkins covers.
Covers grace We Don't Care About Your Good Times too, and good ones: Curtis Mayfield's "Fool for You" and a great version of the Charles Brown classic "I Wanna Be Close." Original stompers like "Pow-Wow" and "Wrong Night" hold up hard next to them. Turpentine Brothers have been compared to The Doors (for me, the kiss of death) and lumped in with the retro-garage scene. No way. The Brothers have taken existing styles, turned it up a notch, and seem already to have their own vision. Does anybody remember Vision?

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