![]() You can't tell from DTR's songs that Warren was once homeless (nor that Liddle is Norwegian), although they do start off acoustically and mournfully before becoming more brisk and jaunty, usually around the one-minute mark, which is hardly punk rock but certainly the energy-flow increases as time goes on. ![]() What began as a solo venture became a band once Liddle recruited "homeless punk-rock drummer" Jon Warren and classically trained violinist William Harvey. Norwegian songwriter Peter Liddle apparently draws inspiration from the stuff he studied at college, namely Medicine and Anthropology. Their songs, some of them collated on an EP entitled Bible Belt, have a sort of late-19th century American frontier ambience, with references to medicine men and intimations of creeping danger, but that doesn't stop them lodging in your skull. Why? Because they're both immensely catchy and you can bop along to them.ĭTR, like Mumford & Sons, know how to construct an infectious semi-acoustic ditty. ![]() The former is arguably being enjoyed more widely by high-street kids, the latter more by students, although we're betting Little Lion Man and Pass Out both get hammered at Uni discos. The one couldn't be more urban, the other offers a glimmer of the pastoral. Has there ever been a band alluding to nature in their name who were anything other than steeped in folk or country? Apart from Ocean Colour Scene? Readers, feel free to point out our limited knowledge of the rustic-moniker pantheon.ĭry the River, we have been reliably informed, are the subjects of a "furious major-label bidding war" – oddly, the two things selling well at the moment, and being chased by record companies, are the wholly unrelated grime-pop and folk-rock. Today, the term Black Belt generally encompasses a stretch of counties from Virginia down through the Deep South and including parts of Texas and Arkansas.The background: Ever so thoughtful of Dry the River to telegraph what they do with that name of theirs: they were never going to be a future dubstep act or a tech-metal crew, were they? There's no risk of you turning up at one of their gigs, wondering what to expect, ear-plugs in hand just in case. Later, and especially since the war, the term seems to be used wholly in a political sense - that is, to designate the counties where the black people outnumber the white. The part of the country possessing this thick, dark, and naturally rich soil was, of course, the part of the South where the slaves were most profitable, and consequently they were taken there in the largest numbers. ![]() So far as I can learn, the term was first used to designate a part of the country which was distinguished by the colour of the soil. Washington described the evolution of the Black Belt: That stretch eventually became associated with the slaves who tended to the land, and the term expanded to include the greater region where slavery and cotton farming was widespread. The term originally referred to a specific stretch in central Alabama known for its dark, fertile soil. The Black Belt is a region of the Southern US with a history of slave plantation agriculture and a high African-American population. Foto: source Shayanne Gal/Business Insider
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