Charles ‘Poppy Bob’ Walker - Dirt Bike Vacation (Preorder 25/10/24)

Charles ‘Poppy Bob’ Walker - Dirt Bike Vacation (Preorder 25/10/24)

Label: Worried Songs - WS019  - 5060853704321
Format: LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: 25th Oct 2024
Genre: Indie Rock / Alternative Rock
Style: Indie Rock / Alternative Rock

Description
“Friends, they are my ticket out of this place I am in… feels like nothing more than a dirt bike vacation stop between Phoenix and San Diego.” Dirt Bike Vacation - for Worried Songs Records - explores the sonic world of the late amateur guitar player, Charles ‘Poppy Bob’ Walker, through a captivating set of instrumental songs made in the mid-1980s. Recorded on a single-track, Marantz field recorder, the project is a transportive document of Walker’s days spent as a meatpacking employee in Yuma, Arizona and the dailiness of that existence: driving to work, sitting in his backyard, walking around drunkenly, unwinding on the couch with a friend. These sketches, showing an experimental tendency, are surprisingly ahead of their time; some exhibit ad hoc tape delay (“Granite Bluffs,” “Goodbye YMCA”), while others make use of primitive overdubbing (“Continuation to Moon Doctor”). Not dissimilar to works such as Bruce Langhorne’s The Hired Hand soundtrack, Walker’s guitar playing is melodic, texturally rich and beautifully sober.

Tracklist

High Above
Baby Bird
Backyard Soliloquy
Driving to Town
Continuation to Moon Doctor
Airbase Blues
Goodbye, YMCA
Train Over Main Span
Signs for Ehrenberg
In with the Grackles
Granite Bluffs
Back to the Foothills
On the Couch with Bernie
Sunset in the Gilas
Walking at Night