Low Cut Connie - Private Lives '2020

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Private Lives
02. Help Me
03. Now You Know
04. Run to Me Darlin
05. Take a Little Ride Downtown
06. Wild Ride
07. If I Die
08. It Dont Take a Genius
09. Look What They Did
10. Tea Time
11. The Fuckin You Get for the Fuckin You Got
12. Quiet Time
13. Charyse
14. Nobody Else Will Believe You
15. What Has Happened to Me
16. Let It All Hang out Tonite
17. Stay as Long as You Like


Carrying the torch for good old rock & roll sleaze - the kind that can be heard
on Jerry Lee Lewis Live at the Star Club and the dirtiest Rolling Stones records
- Low Cut Connie separated themselves from other new millennial rock & roll
revivalists by not taking themselves as seriously as they took their big,
danceable rhythms. To an extent, theyre distinguished by a focus on the piano,
an instrument that isnt heard much in straight-ahead rock & roll in the 2010s,
but Adam Weiners pounding keys give the piano its proper rock & roll due. Weiner
co-leads Low Cut Connie with drummer/guitarist Dan Finnemore, with the duo
expanding to a full band for their fiery live shows.
New Jersey native Weiner, a veteran of piano bars where he performed under the
name Ladyfingers (sometimes on bills also featuring Merrill Garbus, who later
found fame as Tune-Yards), met Birmingham, England-born Finnemore in Manhattan
in 2010, and they soon set up shop in Philadelphia. They knocked out their
debut, Get Out the Lotion, in the summer of 2010, releasing it independently in
2011. The record received positive attention from some heavy-hitter critics,
including Robert Christgau and Ken Tucker. The more considered Call Me Sylvia
followed in 2012, a record that was also well-received and helped expand their
following; they got spots on NPRs World Café and played a show at Third Man
Records. For 2015s Hi Honey, the duo hired Thomas Brenneck -- a producer who cut
his teeth with Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings and worked with Charles Bradley and
Black Keys -- and brought in Dean Ween and Garbus for cameos; they also filled
out Low Cut Connies lineup by making Will Donnelly and James Everhart full-time
members. Hi Honey appeared on Contender Records in the spring of 2015.
Low Cut Connies profile rose after the release of Hi Honey, thanks in no small
part to President Barack Obama placing their 2012 song, Boozophilia, on his 2015
summertime playlist. By the end of the year, Finnemore had left the band on good
terms to return to his native England. Weiner regrouped in 2016, bringing in
Larry Scotton as the bands drummer and Lucas Rinz as bassist. The new line-up
recorded an album live at Ardent Studios in Memphis. Choosing to divide the
record into two parts, Low Cut Connie released Dirty Pictures, Pt. 1 in May of
2017, with Pt. 2 appearing one year later.

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