LIMES - "Tarantula" LP

LIMES - Tarantula LP (Goner, 2011) Joining their Tennessee contemporaries in the Cherry Blossoms as two of the greatest (and most morbidly underloved) working-class "folk-rock" bands to hail from the Volunteer state, Limes approach their downtrodden dive bar'biturate blues from the opposite end of a deconstructed country-western spectrum. This is introverted music, shoved into a room and told to dance. A diamond in the rough of garage-spawn pseudo psych troubadours of the mid-aughts indie landscape (see also: Spider Bags, Ben Wallers, Wes Coleman, Greg(s) Cartwright & Ashley, et al). Shawn Cripps ranks among the best of 'em, and it all starts here... "In a town full of musical hermits and legends, it may seem trite to call anyone the town’s best kept secret. But truck-driving rocker Shawn Cripps and his revolving cast of characters collectively known as Limes have been making lovable late-night rackets at midtown dives for nearly a decade with very little to show for it. A couple o