Like gospel that spreads from tavern to tavern, ship to ship, town to town, the music of The Thin Man resonates outwards towards an always-heedful mass. The Thin Man's songs are midnight lullabies and daydream fantasies, literate tales that spin their maxims in tapestries of velvet chords, minor accordion keys, rousing R&B arrangements, and rollicking guitars. Infused with an inspired whiskey wit and sharp eye that careens out into the endless sea of the City, The Thin Man gives voice to the vice of observation.
The Thin Man came to life as a solo project of Kennedy Greenrod, who had left his native England, relocated to Chicago (after a stint in California) and acquired an accordion. His original vision of a one-man-band-on-a-bicycle careening down the Magnificent Mile playing Magnificent Music for the Magnificent met with grave technical difficulties and was scrapped.
Instead, The Thin Man was assembled with a cast of the best and brightest players in town (among them members of Smog and We Ragazzi) and emerged with the debut A Cloud in Trousers. It delighted critics and audiences alike, contributing to a string of sold-out shows with The Blacks, Firewater, Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire, and Jim White, establishing the band as a powerful live act.
In mid-2004, The Thin Man unearthed HMS Mondegreen, a swashbuckling album that once again saw Mr. Greenrod surrounded by some of Chicago's finest musicians (members of Grimble Grumble and Manishevitz), resplendent with lap steel, cellos, trumpets, and banjos. College radio began to incessantly play HMS' tracks, and All Music Guide and Magnet led the praise parade. The current line-up of Greenrod, Saleem Dhamee, Jason LaBrosse, and Mike McGrath hit the road to increasing response.
On November 15, Contraphonic Music excitedly introduces The Thin Man's Greasy Heart. Their third album is a love-song serenade to picnics, smokers, drinkers, whiskey rivers, lost lovers, old-age, crooked tales, hangings, beatings, mischief, the City, all the stories that surround us in overlooked nooks, lost history books and backdoor bars. As Greasy Heart slithers into your own heart, The Thin Man will be coming to your town to make sure it stays for keeps. |
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