HOLLY GOLIGHTLY
& THE BROKEOFFS
Sunday Run Me
Over
Prolific
London-born, Georgia-based singer-songwriter Holly Golightly (christened after
the call girl protagonist in Truman Capote’s Breakfast At Tiffany’s)
joins forces once more with longtime collaborator, photographer and
multi-talented Texas musician Lawyer Dave.
The pair serve up a dozen titles
that range from rockabilly-on-steroids (‘I Ain’t Got No More Money’), an
off-kilter waltz called ‘One For The Road’, a delightfully re-tooled, rootsy
rendition of Wayne Raney’s 1960 gospel chestnut ‘We Need A Lot More Jesus (And
A Lot Less Rock And Roll)’, the hauntingly chugging opener ‘Goddamn Holy Roll’
(a line from which is the album’s title), a ghostly, loping duet titled ‘They
Say’ and the western swing-edged ‘The Future’s Here’. Not to mention a silvery
take on The Davis Sisters’ ’53 country hit ‘I Forgot More’, along with an
ebullient run-through of Mac Davis’ ‘Hard To Be Humble’, with an appropriately
swaggering lead vocal from the Lawyer.
Golightly has really hit her stride with
these Brokeoffs projects.
Gary von Tersch
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