Mr. airplane man

Description

A simple and beautiful story is that of Margaret Garrett (guitar, vocals) and Tara McManus (drums and keyboards), or more simply Mr Airplane Man, a hypnotic blues duo born in Boston in 1996. Friends since middle school, they decided to form a duo based on their obsession with rock'n'roll and the blues. Their duo, which they named with this strange name because of a Howlin' Wolf song, started on the streets as it should and became, 3 years later, Best New Local Act by the readers of the Boston Phoenix.Margaret and Tara managed to create a unique and personal sound on their desert island. A hard and hypnotic sound, bewitching, spacey, which plays wonderfully with the tacit codes of their idols such as Mississippi Fred McDowell, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Howlin' Wolf and the Boston protogarage band: The Lyres.Rapidly they captivated experienced ears and reached a growing number of admirers, including Greg Cartwright of the Oblivians and Reigning Sound or the late Mark Sandman of the band Morphine, who taught Margaret guitar. In the early 2000s, they recorded three superb albums for the label Sympathy for the Record Industry and played with the White Stripes and the Strokes. Discovered by John Peel, for whom they did several sessions, they toured across the United States and Europe, before their story ended in 2006.The first listens of this record weaken the hearing, intrigue, question, but above all fascinate rock and blues enthusiasts. An absolutely carnal touch aerates and breaks the increasingly frequent pheromones in blues since Eric Clapton and Popa Chubby. Following already 3 releases on Moi J'Connais of female blues, Mr Airplane Man, in all its splendor, completes the picture and echoes the sirens of the Mississippi, now gone. Margarett and Tara, still very much alive but in different cities, each a mother, and respectively drummer and guitarist in their new bands, had a tear in their eye the day when, after several months of searching, two boys, founders of a small Geneva label, contacted them to release their first Demo on LP, which they themselves had forgotten. A mastering job from the tapes, work on the original cover, and texts on the how and why, make this release unique and unclassifiable.This Long Play is the rediscovered witness, silent for too long, of their first days as a band! A recording of their first studio experience that would give birth to the very essence of the duo, to the deep inspiration of what would become Mr Airplane Man. Partly recorded by Mark Sandman. Originally self-produced in 1998 by the group, it took 15 years to finally see this marvel released on LP.Only 1000 copies pressed, screen-printed with the original cover on classy tobacco paper. Inside sheet with rare photos and texts by Margarett and Tara. among others!Close your eyes and float away!