Terminus Records
2003
Mouth Full Of Copper
About This Album
Some artists live for the stage, and some live for the studio. Hip-hop, urban contemporary, dance/club music, and electronica are very studio-oriented mediums; most rappers, in fact, are so technology-minded that they sound much better in the studio than they do on-stage. But the electronic, high-tech approach, for all its pleasures, hasn't eliminated the need for live music -- from hard bop to death metal to Mexican norteño, there are still a ton of artists who can't wait to hit the stage. And roots rockers Jerry Joseph & the Jackmormons certainly sound like they feel that way on Mouthful of Copper, a two-CD set that was recorded live at the Irish Times in Butte, Montana in August 2002. That doesn't mean that the power trio -- lead singer/guitarist Joseph, bassist Junior Ruppel, and drummer Brad Rosen -- are uncomfortable in the studio, or that Joseph's studio albums aren't enjoyable. But it does mean that the threesome brings a certain urgency to the stage, and Mouthful of Copper successfully captures that urgency. This double-CD has a great sound -- tough, raw, hard-edged, powerful -- and one person who can take much of the credit for that is producer/engineer Betty Cantor-Jackson, who recorded these live performances.
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