Scaledown no 34 on Friday 22nd June saw the first gig by the runaway 18 wheeler that is The Double Clutching Daddies, a band dedicated to playing the Truck Drivin' Country sound of artists like Junior Brown, Red Simpson & Wayne Hancock (actually, Hancock's songs are not strictly truck drivin' songs, more hot rods and the like).
Most Red Simpson songs are either about driving a truck while being chased by the Highway Patrol, or being a Highway Patrolman chasing a truck. Junior Brown is of course the king of the Guit-steel.
Despite a couple of minor glitches (me starting Semi Crazy in the wrong key, then forgetting the first line) it was a well received set.
Here's an extract of erstwhile Scaledown host Mr Richard Sanderson's review:
"The Double Clutching Daddies were a kind of workplace supergroup - suitably cowboy-hatted they rambled through a few truck-driving C & W numbers. Danny O'Brien wacked a single snare drum, Steve Pom sang (fairly unintelligably to my Limey ears), Mike Orchard played some lap steel that seemed to owe more to the psychedelic stylings of The Misunderstood than my idea of C&W, whilst Dan Whaley dropped in some terrific twangy guitar chops. They went down a storm."
See here for the full review of the evening.
Will there be further performances? Who knows? Watch this space...
