Search - Phil Gammage :: Motel Songs

Already familiar to fans of the current rock scene as a founding member, and lead guitarist of Certain General, and founder and leader of 80's garage legends, the Corvairs, Gammage has collated the best 20 tracks from a series of releases issued by French and Spanish labels in the early/mid 90's after the demise of the Corvairs. For these sessions, Gammage surrounds himself with a veritable who's who of the downtown NYC rock scene with members of Certain General, Band of Outsiders, Richard Hell band, Richard Lloyd band, Lydia Lunch band, Feelies, Corvairs, Tongues on Fire, Nails and others helping out on the various tracks. In Phil's world, it's always night, the streets are rain-swept, and he's cruising down the old highway to a border town cantina where the whiskey is cheap, the women dangerous and the morning promises nothing more that another bleary-eyed hangover. As Trouser Press said of Gammage's Night Train (5 tracks of which are reprised here) "(Gammage)! puts personality into darkside Americana echoing Nick Cave's fascinations minus the melodrama. Which might well make Gammage this generation's Hank Williams."