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Stan Ridgways Drywall Offers Charred Music for Smokin BBQs

Songwriter and musical alchemist Stan Ridgway has taken a short break from his solo endeavors (last year'ss acclaimed CD Snakebite, the DVD Holiday in Dirt) in order to deliver another installment from his Drywall side project, Barbeque Babylon: 15 Choice Cuts for Your BBQ Party, on redFLY records (distributed by Bayside Distribution).



Drywall is Stan Ridgway, guitar and vocals; Pietra Wexstun, keyboards and vocals; and Rick King, guitar, bass and vocals. Other musical friends join in from track to track. Street date for the album is January 10, 2006.



's8220;Drywall,'s8221; explains Ridgway, 's8220;is a mad musical project of ours that gets nailed up every once and a while when things of this nature pile up. Our experimental eletro noise combo. I still enjoy messing with sounds. Drywall music attempts to give 's8216;sonic understanding's8217; in a world that too often does not. It's8217;s also about saying we'sre mad as hell and aren'st going to take it anymore. These days, there'ss a lot to get angry about, too. We feel it's8217;s the best Drywall record we'sve done. Pietra, Rick, myself and our studio gang cooked it up this last summer in a way to gather some equilibrium emotionally. We hope it does the same for listeners. It's8217;s about trash and frustration, fear and control.



Not that Ridgway doesn's8217;t address trash, frustration and fear on his solo outings. But Drywall ups 's8212; or downs 's8212; the ante, addressing warmongers('s8220;Wargasm's8221;), middle age ennui (Somewhere In The Dark), economic hardship ('s8220;Something's8217;s Gonna Blow's8221;) and robbers, bandits, bastards and thieves ('s8220;Robbers & Bandits & Bastards & Thieves's8221;) in a mix of tropical rhythms, acid jazz, electronica, country and funk. Despite its topics, lots of Barbeque Babylon is quitedanceable, and certainly will be fine accompaniment to any BBQ party . . . as the world burns.



Stan Ridgway'ss musical career began in the late 's8216;70s as part of a soundtrack company to create music for low-budget horror films. From its ashes, art-punk outfit Wall of Voodoo was born, and with Ridgway as leadvoice, released an EP, two albums, and the 1982 single Mexican Radio.'s8221; Ridgway then embarked on a solo career that has included work in film (Rumblefish with Stewart Copeland, other independent film soundtracks) and artist production (most recently Frank Black & The Catholics's8217; Show Me Your Tears, 2003, and Blood, 2004, with composer Pietra Wexstun, a musical score to accompany the paintings of artist Mark Ryden) in addition to numerous critically acclaimed solo recordings.



Stan says, This CD completes the 's8216;trilogy of apocalyptic documents's8217; we started back in 1996 with the first Drywall record, Work The Dumb Oracle. Drywall music is like a weather report, really. The songs are written by all of us in a topical vein and you might even call this our blow-yer-mind/protest record, in the grand tradition of recordings we grew up with like Country Joe & The Fish'ss I Feel Like I'sm Fixin's To Die. It also puts your head in a different space to make a band record, even though it's8217;s more of a project than a real band. Still, we'sll be playing some of this out on tour if we can just calm down long enough.



Further, Stan has a suggestion for meeting others if you'sll be listening in your car: 's8220;Place a big dirty sock over your car radio antenna to alert like-minded others that you are listening to Drywall in there. Then form a convoy and head towards your state capitol at breakneck speed. Do not stop. Do not pass go. Park in handicap spaces and wait for further instructions.'s8221;

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