Claude Hay - Deep Fried Satisfied

Self Release

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Time-40:27

Australian Claude Hay brings the one- man band into the present. This is blues in as much as his main accompaniment is slashing slide guitar and many of the songs are about his personal concerns and problems. He reflects on problems of our current times, which is what blues has always done. The music here owes more to The White Stripes, The Black Keys and Ellen Mcllwaine than the blues. At least on record what he does is play all instruments with overdubbing. He doesn’t use the guitar-foot percussion approach usually associated with one-man bands. The execution and production is such that it’s seamless. If I didn’t know any better I would think he’s backed by different capable musicians, although most of the backup sounds are percussion. The slithering slide and subject matter lend a freshness to this recording.

His concerns are of a personal nature. “I hear a pizza calling” is the refrain heard in “Get Me Some” about his addiction to New York City pizza that he underscores with jumpy acoustic slide. It’s a breezy tune that includes a Parliament-Funkadelic outro with ‘chinky guitar’ and funky thumped bass. He professes his love for junk food in “Deep Fried Satisfied”. “Heading Home” at first sounds like a longing for his lady, but turns out to be about missing his cat back home. Dissatisfaction with consumerism is expressed in “How Can You Live With Yourself’ and “Don’t Give Me That”. In the former he berates the manufacturer of his bum computer printer. He exclaims “Don’t give me that s**t” on the ladder to an unscrupulous used car salesman, like there was any other kind. “On Hold” is a rant against those crazy machines that torment our daily lives by keeping us in phone limbo. Claude comes off as a loony R.L. Burnside on his remake of Queen’s “We Will Rock You” that features speed-freak slide guitar. His late mother is lamented on the chant-like “Miss You So”.