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From The Desk Of David Lowery: Dexateens

lowery110dDavid Lowery has maintained a healthy career as a split musical personality. When he isn’t playing laconic country-tinged pop with his band of 25 years, Camper Van Beethoven, he’s thrashing away at his guitar as the frontman for Cracker, the rock outfit that’s releasing its 10th studio album, Sunrise In The Land Of Milk And Honey, this week. Lowery adds another line to his resume as he guest edits magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with him.

dexateensts390Lowery: Lately, Tuscaloosa, Ala.’s Dexateens have been caught up in the Drive-By-Truckers’ slipstream. Supporting them on a series of shows, one might get the impression that the Dexateens are another Southern-rock/alt-country outfit. They are not. Self-described as a garage band, they are more like an under-recorded Rolling Stones. Elliott McPherson positively howls the lyrics with a rock swagger that is both awkward and pentecostal. Last time I saw them at a UGA fraternity party, drummer Sweet Dog was looking for a card game between sets while other band members had their wives and kids in tow. Now that is Southern. Check out “Pine Belt Blues” (video after the jump) off 2005’s Red Dust Rising album. Isn’t this the rock that so many others have promised? And it doesn’t even sound like they are trying that hard. The new Dexateens album, Singlewide, is due out May 19.

“Down Low” from Singlewide (download):

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