Spirit Caravan
Jug Fulla Sun (Tolotta)
by Craig Regala
What’s to say? The band is led by a guy who was in the Obsessed and St. Vitus. He’s been working his rock muse since he could get his hands on both a guitar and other people to form a band. The sound is a fully rounded slice of drone biker/doom that owes less to anything specific than the general man vs. nature rock as rock push. You can reference Sabbath, but this is more organic. It’s grounded in street logic and driving acidic guitar sparking rather than heroics or four-part tunes (look, Sabbath is prolly my favorite band next to the JHE, but Spirit Caravan is a gnomeless trip and better for it). There is a real world blues to Jug Fulla Sun that points toward Randy Holden and the first couple Blue Cheer recs., as well as early Robin Trower/High Tide/Groundhogs blues-based rock as antecedents as much as any famed metallurgists. So what, right? Does it rock? Does he get to you? Are the tunes there? Is he
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