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Dax Riggs: We Sing of Only Blood or Love
Interview, Sept, 2007 by Jonathan Durbin
DAX RIGGS We Sing of Only Blood or Love (Fat Possum)
This solo album from Dax Riggs, the artist formerly of Deadboy and the Elephant men, is a mess of Southern and psychedelic rock, running the gamut between deliciously garish metal and sentimental folk. The two styles mesh on opener "Demon Tied to a Chair in My Brain," and inform the rest of the album, from the whiskey-sipping back-porch desperation of "Dog-Headed Whore" to the bleak acid-blues of "Didn't Know Yet What I'd Know When I Was Bleedin'." Riggs hails from Louisiana and was raised by a single mother who was a Jehovah's Witness. His lyrics are frequently religious and often imply that he's on good terms with Satan. Consider this, from "Living Is Suicide": "Along the highway and the graveyard lines/Have mercy on the devil, he's a friend of mine." The prince of darkness has rarely been offered such a worthy commendation.
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