Taste Test: Nate Fredrick might just be ‘Better Off Alone’
The Americana bluesman vows to never fall for toxic love again with a new jam session.
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Voice as sticky as a fly strip, Americana bluesman Nate Fredrick knows better than to be hypnotized back into a spider’s silky, silvering and poisonous web. “Better Off Alone,” the A-side to his just-issued digital ’45 called The Nutthouse Sessions, produced by Grammy winner Jimmy Nutt (The Steeldrivers), is a reckless guitar fire storm, which positions Fredrick as a relentless beast of vocal power. “Gone now, never going back,” he growls, as gravel tumbles right from his swarthy vocal cords. His voice carries with it a heart-rending conviction, the kind worthy of a Chris Stapleton record, but the melody permits him much space and freedom to lay down a foundation all his own. “I don’t know where I’m going / But I know it’ll be far, so far away from here,” he lets his fury flutter from his fevered lips. The tension builds into a sweltering frenzy, and in the final stanza, his voice is altogether striking.
The Nutthouse Sessions is out everywhere now.
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