Product Description

Inspired by old Blues & Hillbilly records, not to mention lethal doses of writers like William Faulkner, Edgar Allen Poe & Dashiell Hammett. A sound that has at times been described as "Country Noir", "Gothic Americana".

Track Listing

1. No Hand Like Desire
2. Stark Weather
3. Haunted
4. Red House
5. Found The Devil
6. Lymon Jones
7. With A Prayer
8. Bright Eyes
9. Rain & The Water Wide
10. To Love Is To Die
11. Kneeling For A Dorsey
12. End Of The Line
13. If

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #364645 in Music
• Released on: 2005-06-05
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics

Review
"...Mournful songs...The moods and textures of Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash, Tom Waits and Nick Cave...A striking cd" --St. Louis Magazine, November 2005

Review
"With Their Appalachian echoes & imaginative new lyrics, Orton's songs reach straight for the audience" --St. Louis Post Dispatch, October

Review
"Some of the most innovative music of our time...can all be summed up with one word, BRILLIANT." --Subterranean Records, NYC 2005

Customer Reviews

Idle Hands Of A Master
Five Stars is a Rare commodity, but This is a Rare CD. Kevin impressed me from the Beginning when Joie/DBG handed me a CD with a musical rendition of a Paul Laurence Dunbar poem -- a newer version is also included here (Kevin's the the only other person we know who is famliar with this brilliant poet). The live performances are an Entertaining show as Well. Kevin has an Actor's Heart and Soul and a Maledictions show always draws you into the Music and Performance Heart And Soul. It's more than most audiences ever Expect. Idle Hands is a Maledictions show come to life in your very own Hands. And that's what keeps us coming Back.

FROM SUBTERRANEAN RECORDS- 5 CORNELIA ST. NYC
Kevin Orton does it again with this sophomore release Idle Hands which he so graciously credited to the entire band The Maledictions. This is some of the most innovative music of our time. Think if you will Leonard Cohen being backed by The Mysterians or any other majorly great Garage Psych band. Sparse yet powerful. A record the Cramps might've made had they dared to venture beyond their comfortable formula.. I suppose it can all be summed up with one word, BRILLIANT. Looking forward to the next release.

GET LOST
GB

Howling devils, dead girls & funeral ballads? Musical saws, dulcimers & fiddles? Weepy slide & lap steel. Tubas? Voice like a cross btw Nick Cave, Jeff Buckley & Eddie Vedder? No hand Like Desire: where Spaghetti Westerns meet Surf Rock. Red House: John Lee Hooker meets The Doors. Lymon Jones: Silence of The Lambs backed by some epic Neil Young "Like A Hurricane" shredding. No cell phones, no cars, none of the comforts of home. I guess this is what they mean by "cult artist".