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Holly Golightly

Look Like Trouble

Holly Golightly is back with her first new album since Do The Get Along from seven years ago! It features ten new original songs all offering Holly’s unique look at life and reflecting its many ups and downs. “‘Black Tongue’ is a melodic hex” says Holly, “feel free to use it, it works!” Another standout track is ‘It’s All’ which Holly describes as a memorial song. “This one is dedicated to several old friends. A contribution to funerals I could not attend” she says.

As always, the darker songs are offset with lighter offerings – “‘Rolling Along’ is an upbeat ditty of encouragement for everyone, since we are all doing it!” It also wouldn’t be a Holly Golightly album if there wasn’t a sharp caustic track or two included. “‘Miss Fortune’ is a blunt advisory number for those without a lick of sense” says Holly. 

TRACK LISTING

1.Black Tongue
2.My Get Back
3.It’s All
4.Rolling Along
5.Down To One
6.Miss Fortune
7.Secrets We Keep
8.The Right Thing
9.Time
10.Sail On

Holly Golightly

My First Holly Golightly Album - 2025 Reissue

Finally available for the first time on vinyl, the 'My First Holly Golightly Album' CD compilation from TWENTY years ago!

A 14-track compilation inspired by the Holly Golightly live show as it was then. This compilation features Holly’s favourite tracks from as far back as her 1995 debut album 'The Good Things' right through to her 'Slowly but Surely' album. It also features four exclusive tracks that were recorded for the first time especially for this compilation.

TRACK LISTING

1. Wherever You Were
2. You Ain’t No Big Thing
3. Walk A Mile
4. Won’t Go Out
5. Sally Go Round The Roses
6. Your Love Is Mine
7.Nothing You Can Say
8. Black Night
9. Mother Earth
10. An Eye For An Empty Heart
11. Run Cold
12. Slowly But Surely
13. My Love Is
14. I Can’t Stand It

Holly Golightly

Singles Round-Up

Holly Golightly (real name) started her musical career as a founder member of all girl garage band Thee Headcoatees, a Billy Childish /
Thee Headcoats splinter group in 1991. She spent four years as a Headcoatee before breaking away to release her debut record, The Good Things, in 1995. Where the Headcoatees sound was a blend of girl group sounds and three-chord garage-rock with all the original songs coming from the pen of Billy Childish, Holly's solo sound is more a blend of pre-rock electric blues, folk rock, and less frantic rock 'n' roll. Apart from the wide range of covers of such artists as Willie Dixon, Ike Turner, Lee Hazelwood, Wreckless Eric, and Bill Withers, Golightly also writes most of her own material.

Holly Golightly is definitely the most interesting and diverse artist to come out of the Billy Childish school and is certainly one of the better singer/songwriters of the post-grunge era who gets better with every album. Since her debut in 1995, Golightly has been very prolific, releasing a string of classic long play records and loads of singles for a wide variety of labels as well as touring extensively in America, Australia & Europe. This double vinyl LP, (or single CD newly packaged in a digipack) compiles Holly's first twelve 7” singles, A & B-sides. It includes the bluesy 'No Big Thing' with its bar-room piano and harmonica backing, the dirty guitar-driven 'Til I Get, the shuffling brushed drums and double bass of 'Come The Day, the haunting vocal and bottleneck guitar of 'Stain' and finishes with a brilliant up-tempo cover of Pavement's 'Box Elder'.

TRACK LISTING

1. Virtually Happy
2. The Ride #1
3. No Big Thing
4. My Own Sake
5. 'Til I Get
6. Waiting Room
7. I Can't Be Trusted
8. Card Table
9. No Hope Bar
10. Believe Me #1
11. Come The Day
12. In You
13. Believe Me #2
14. Stain
15. Won't Go Out
16. Too Late Now
17. Sand
18. Lonesome Town
19. Your Love Is Mine
20. Laughing To Keep From Crying
21. Listen
22. Rain Down Rain
23. You Shine
24. Box Elder

On Clippety Clop, UK punk turned Athens-area musician Holly Golightly explores songs that reflect her experiences and surroundings. Golightly and her significant other, Lawyer Dave, rescue horses in Madison County, so it makes sense that they'd relate to the folk and popular histories of equine-themed lyrics. Twelve such selections make up what might be the first and only covers album of blues, country and indie-rock songs about horses.

From swearing like sailors while honoring Jimmie Rodgers' "Mule Skinner" to making alt-rockers Red Red Meat's "Carpet of Horses" sound like alt-country, the couple adds its own twist to each song covered. This juxtaposition between songs' traditional arrangements and Golightly's new musical interpretations keeps conjuring up surprises. Examples include the rockabilly swing on Big Maybelle's "Jinny Mule" and the Vaselines-style indie-pop vibe added to cowboy anthem "I Ride an Old Paint."

Golightly explores a wide range of musical approaches, making this a broad-reaching introduction for listeners who only know her White Stripes collaboration. For those who share her and Jack White's interest in unearthing musical history, prepare for a primer on everything from the Singing Brakeman to the legendary British race horse Stewball. - Flagpole

TRACK LISTING

Mule Skinner
Two White Horses
Horses In The Mines
Pinto Pony
Black Horse Blues
Kill Grey Mule
Carpet Of Horses
I Ride An Old Paint
Jinny Mule
Stewball
Strawberry Roan
Mule Train


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