Search - Ol' Hoopty :: Key's Under the Mat

Put on Ol' Hoopty's debut CD Key's Under the Mat, and try to envision how this music came together. The strands that crisscross through this band evoke the threads of a prized old quilt from this band's home town of Asheville, North Carolina. The songs? Take Me Home With You is a veritable goldmine of 13th chords under a an urgent plea for some love. In I Don't Miss New York, our narrator gets unceremoniously dumped by his girl for a seagoing rival, and seems to convince himself that he's finally had enough of Gotham. The Hooptyphone appears in You Look Back - a tale of the unwitting cruelty that can lie at the end of love's wretched path. World's Changin'? - Our narrator likes things the way they were. Guns, God and guts... and a front porch somewhere in Texas. Follow You Down - Try to come up with another song that manages to rip off both Longfellow and Deuteronomy. Step Back Baby - Who knew that one little phrase could say so much? "Step back baby, let a grown man do his thing." Sunday Morning - The Gospel According to Ol' Hoopty. Dance - Sometimes we want to make people just get up and dance. Willie's Coming Home -Appalachia in the 1940s. The boys who went to war and the gals who held down the home typify some sad and all too familiar themes. Black and White Tight Dress - The infatuated guy meets girl. Black Mountain Blues - A lonely night in a storied little town in North Carolina, where our narrator comes face to face with loss, rejection and an annoyingly loud cover band. Crawfish Patty -We don't live in New Orleans. We don't play like those people. This is just our tribute to the music and culture of that great city.