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Durante un cuarto de siglo Dexter Romweber ha errado entre los anaqueles polvorientos de una embrujada trastienda sureña, repletos de objetos estrambóticos, perfeccionando un extraordinario idioma sonoro. Una original y desasosegante pócima a base de proto-rockabilly, surf, garage, y blues. Un preparado que nadie, NADIE, prepara como Dexter. Con los legendarios Flat Duo Jets, a duo con su hermana Sarah, o en solitario, Dex destila el dogma “menos es más” del punk en un esencial brebaje no adulterado de puro rock and roll underground americano. Entre los fans acérrimos y declarados de Dexter se encuentran Jack White, Neko Case, the Reigning Sound, Ty Segall, No Age, Japandroids, y The Black Keys. Todos ellos tienen una deuda con su indómito y arrebatador sonido. Dexter es la conexión con las oscuras, a veces peligrosas, y siempre impredecibles fuentes primordiales del verdadero rock and roll. Flat Duo Jets publicaron el primero de sus nueve álbumes en 1990, con grandes elogios de la crítica, y causaron impresión cuando actuaron en el programa Late Night With David Letterman. Hicieron su primera gran gira con The Cramps, y protagonizaron, junto con R.E.M. y The B-52s, el documental de culto “Athens, GA: Inside/Out”. Después de un puñado de discos en solitario empieza a publicar para Bloodshot en 2008. En 2009 el sello de Jack White Third Man Records publica un disco suyo en directo, y en 2012 aparece el documental “Two Headed Cow” sobre la vida, a veces desgarradora, de Dexter Romweber. En el documental “It Might Get Loud” Jack White, para mostrar los orígenes de su estilo a sus compañeros de reparto, nada menos que Jimmy Page y The Edge (U2), les pone un disco y les cuenta… “Los Flat Duo Jets de North Carolina. Guitarra, batería, y voces. Como yo y Meg. Fui a verles tocar y me dejaron ALUCINADO. No había nada en el escenario, tan sólo un pequeño ampli de 10 watios, y una guitarra Silvertone. Eso abrió un enorme campo de inspiración para mí en cuanto a la guitarra.”

“Dex Romweber era y es una enorme influencia en mi música. De adolescente tenía todos sus discos. Es uno de los secretos mejor guardados del rock’n’roll underground.” Jack White /The White Stripes

01 I HAD A DREAM 02 LONESOME TRAIN 03 NIGHTIDE 04 TOMORROW’S TAKING MY BABY AWAY 05 TROUBLE OF THE WORLD 06 MY FUNNY VALENTINE 07 I DON’T KNOW 08 WHERE DO YOU ROAM? 09 SMILE 10 KNOCK KNOCK 11 MIDNIGHT AT VIC’S 12 OUT OF THE WAY 13 TELL ME WHY I DO

DEX ROMWEBER · CARRBORO

“Carrboro” es el cuarto álbum de Dex Romweber para Bloodshot Records después de “Ruins of Berlin” (2009), “Is That You In The Blue?” (2011), y “Images 13” (2014).

13 canciones entre composiciones originales y versiones de lo más dispar: de T. Bone Burnett a Charly Chaplin, y de Jerry Lee Lewis a un tema de una obra de Broadway de los años 30 (“para mi no tiene ninguna importancia el estilo que sea una canción, si me gusta puedo grabarla”, dice Dex.

Carrboro es el nombre la pequeña ciudad natal de Dex Romweber, en el estado sureño de North Carolina.

DEX ROMWEBER · CARRBORO

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DEX ROMWEBER

RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 9, 2016For nearly 30 years, the name Dex Romweber has been the password to a cool club. It lets the doorman size you up through the slit in the green door that leads to a world where rock and roll is still real… and real, real gone. Dex’s progeny, impacted by his wild and wildly influential work in Flat Duo Jets, his Duo and solo, includes the White Stripes, the Black Keys, the Kills, Man or Astroman? and dozens of other bands that have stripped down, turned up, and cut loose. Songs don’t just come out of Dex, they seem to erupt; there is an unearthly urgency in the singer and the song. There’s no tamping it down, Dex lays it out there every time. But sometimes – in all that mind-blowing sound and energy – the soul often gets overlooked, and Dex is, above all else, a deeply soulful performer. Carrboro, with its cover shot of the railroad tracks that run through his hometown, where on a grey day or a dark night you’d find a young Dex immersing himself in the music of his idols, is his fourth record for Bloodshot (and his first for us a solo artist). Through 13 originals and far-ranging covers, Dex reaches into his steamer trunk of influences and inspirations, and fabricates an enthralling sonic quilt. As Dex describes his approach, “It doesn’t matter to me what genre—if I like a song I might record it.” It’s all different, but all of one piece. On Carrboro, Dex assumes several musical mantles (and uncharacteristically plays all or many of the instruments). There’s the sparse and jumpy hillbilly liveliness of “Knock Knock (Who’s That Knockin’ On My Coffin Lid Door?)”

with help from Rick Miller of Southern Culture On The Skids; “Lonesome Train,” originally recorded by Cecilia Batten in nearby Chapel Hill in ’57; and a take on the T. Bone Burnett-penned “I Don’t Know,” sung by Ryan Bingham and The Dude for the film Crazy Heart (says Dex: “the lyrics seem to be so much about my own life… damn I just had to record it”). With the fuller sound of the New Romans, a 10-piece Chapel Hill collective, “Nightide” is a Tarantino grind on the surf-deck of the USS Enterprise, while Mahalia Jackson’s “Trouble of the World” throbs with a thrilling apocalyptic gloom. Dex’s last-call crooner persona kicks off the album with a surprising contemporary cover, that of English singer-songwriter Findlay Brown’s “I Had A Dream” (“It affected me deeply personally when I first heard it,” Dex explains). He embraces “Smile,” a Charlie Chaplin tune (yeah, you read that right) and the Jerry Lee Lewis obscurity “Tomorrow’s Taking Baby Away” with Waits-ian levels of resignation and weariness. And no Dex Romweber record is complete without some instrumental wizardry. There’s the tiki surf of “Midnight at Vic’s” and the sunset dreamscape of “Out of the Way.” He even turns “My Funny Valentine,” the Rodgers and Hart Broadway chestnut from the 1930s into the soundtrack to a ghostly roller rink murder caper. In the end, the album plays like the jukebox at the full service honky-tonk saloon, jazz club, Tin Pan Alley pitch house, and blues joint along the tracks. Get off at the Carrboro station.

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CARRBORO

“Dex Romweber was and is a huge influence on my music...one of the best kept secrets of the rock n roll underground.” —Jack White

“An artist who remains one of America’s generally unheralded dusky treasures.” —American Songwriter