Joseph DECOSIMO
Fiery Gizzard
Dear Life US
Rel: 4 Sep 25
Folk/Americana
| Side 1 - Track 1. Ida Red |
| Side 1 - Track 2. Glory In The Meetinghouse |
| Side 1 - Track 3. Flowery Girls |
| Side 1 - Track 4. I Had A Good Father & Mother |
| Side 1 - Track 5. Shady Grove |
| Side 2 - Track 1. Pretty Fair Maid |
| Side 2 - Track 2. Billy Button |
| Side 2 - Track 3. Puncheon Camps |
| Side 2 - Track 4. Queen Of Rocky Ripple |
| Side 2 - Track 5. Boatsman |
North Carolina old-time fiddler and banjoist Joseph Decosimo leans into the unusual and slightly psychedelic on Fiery Gizzard, his latest full-length LP. Traditional reels and songs like 'Shady Grove' and 'Billy Button' are intertwined with synth drones, electric guitar, and layered percussion, giving familiar tunes an expanded sonic palette. The opener 'Ida Red' brings in Stephanie Coleman's fiddle alongside Decosimo's banjo and vocals, while Flowery Girls, inspired by one-man-band folk blues musician Abner Jay, adds fretless banjo, drums, and Andy Stack's bass for a junkshop-jam energy. The album closes on the delicate banjo miniature 'Boatsman' with birdsong and children's chatter, rounding off ten tracks of inventive, collaborative old-time music.