andre williams & the sadies Red Dirt (CD, £8.75)

Red Dirt, 14 country-SOUL smokers slathered in grit and grease and Andre's high-mileage, velvety growl, with sexy booty bottom provided by Toronto's masters of spaghetti western-surf-garage-punk, The Sadies. "Red Dirt is THE connection between Merle Haggard, R & B gone skittish and some bedside croonin' that's sure to drive you cuh-ray zee!" —Splendid E-Zine