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Trippy Wicked Post Seasick Steve Cover “Things Go Up”

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Alright, I’ll go ahead and admit I didn’t know who Seasick Steve was. The third in a seemingly ongoing series of singles from Trippy Wicked and the Cosmic Children of the Knight that were recorded along with what became their 2009 debut long-player, Movin’ On (review here), “Things Go Up” is indeed a take on the Seasick Steve song of the same name, and I suppose if you’re more down than I am with your modern blues — as no doubt you are — you might already know it comes from the Oakland country bluesman’s 2006 album, Dog House Music, but yeah, I’d never heard it. Hey, I never said I knew everything. Usually I say the opposite.

Trippy Wicked‘s “Things Go Up” gives the slide-acoustic groove of the original version a thickened-fuzz treatment while guitarist Peter Holland toys with a Southern US accent as heard on parts of the album itself. And “toys” is the operative word. They’re clearly having a good time, and with all the American singers who’ve pretended to be from London over the last century of recorded music, it seems only fair. Two-way street, and so on.

Some comment from bassist Dicky King and the track itself follow, courtesy of the PR wire:

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TRIPPY WICKED RELEASE NEW SINGLE

Trippy Wicked & The Cosmic Children Of the Knight have just released a doomed out cover of Seasick Steve’s “Things Go Up”

Bassist Dicky King commented “I had never heard the original by Seasick Steve, but when Chris and Pete played it to me I loved it. We ran through this version and straight away it had that “Trippy touch” to it, while keeping close to the original. Pete’s vocals worked really with that southern sound and the riffs and drums were full on heavy with a hint of groove. I used to forget the name of the track and always say “let’s do Up & Down” which of course set me up for taking some stick. The song would go down well in a live set too and many a time people would be shouting out for us to play it, so we must have been doing something right with our take on it.”

Listen to the track here: http://smarturl.it/ThingsGoUp?IQid=c

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