GREEN ON RED
Green on Red
Restless/Outside
· A dish you can eat from the inside out.
There are a couple of ways to approach this album – which one you choose will likely depend on your previous familiarity with L.A.-via-Tucson roots rockers Green on Red. If you remember them from their heyday as mid-’80s harbingers of the No Depression movement, then start at Track 1, and plunge head-on into the remastered version of 1985’s Gas Food Lodging in all its Gram Parsons- and CCR-channelling glory.
If you’re new to Green on Red, then start at Track 13, which marks the entry point into their eponymous 1982 LP. This way, you can trace the band’s evolution from a post-punk four-piece – descending from psychedelia and surf-rock to a dusty barroom quintet penning organ-drenched, sepia-toned vignettes of Americana.
But don’t forget the two bonus tracks sandwiched in the middle, which capably straddle the surprisingly narrow gulf between dingy garage and desert highway.
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