Gasoline Cowboy E.P., by Basement Tapes

Gasoline Cowboy E.P.

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1.	Sometimes Girl 02:24	info	buy track
2.	Make Believe 04:15	info	buy track
3.	Gasoline Cowboy 03:07	info	buy track
4.	Rose Tinted Past 03:41	info	buy track

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"Gasoline Cowboy the new four song EP from Reno’s Basement Tapes walks the line between a bold re-imagining of American musical traditions and the soothing comfort of down and dirty rock’n’roll.

From the very first lost-in-Laurel-Canyon pop jangler, Sometimes Girl, they come out swinging for the fences. It’s as if Roger McGuinn’s twisted stepchild of electric, turned-on-tuned-in-dropped-out psychedelic folk rock found a time machine and fast forwarded some five decades into the Nevada desert. The song laments the perils of a taken fore-granted relationship whilst featuring handclaps and tambourine contrapuntally.

Follow this up with a sad weeper that grinds the imagery of lost childhood innocence firmly into a heap of ashes despite asking the listener to imagine a time and place where “nothing ever went wrong” and wishes that “we wouldn’t fight tonight”; and you have the makings of a lost Exile track.

The EP’s title track Gasoline Cowboy takes the listener through a raucous spaghetti Western that gallops with the stride of Clydesdale before launching into a furious Hemi powered blast out to Joshua Tree. Meant as tribute to the band’s patron saint, Gram Parsons, the song pays homage to an all too short life that flashed with brilliance before sadly extinguishing in a road-side motel.

The EP’s closing track, Rose Tinted Past, burns and scorches with the heat of a blowtorch. Steeped heavily in the hearty, steadfast values of a Midwestern upbringing this one resonates decidedly in the camp of Westerberg, Springsteen, etc. Reminding us that all is transitory, the song’s central chorus exclaims that our “rose tinted past fades away.”

This is one EP you don’t want to miss."

- Ben wRong Tores -tRolling Stone Magazine

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released September 17, 2019

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Basement Tapes Reno, Nevada

Basement Tapes believes that rock and roll should be fun, with guts and soul. We are five individuals playing real instruments, performing original songs written with conviction and feeling about the world we live in and the kind of world we want to create for ourselves. Basement Tapes plays garage rock, retro, 60’s influenced, raw, high-energy, music to shake your money maker. ... more

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