Chop

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Cat No: DWINKCD001

Release Date: 05 November 2007

Label: Dwink

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 5060109098235

Genres: Rock

Description
Dennis Hopper Choppers is Ben Nicholls, a one-man-band, simultaneously playing guitar, bass drum, high hat, organ bass pedals, vox-organ and a 1969 Fender Dual Showman amplifier. His debut is 13 tracks of high-plains-via-East-London fretboard wrangling and heartfelt rockabilly stomp while his rich and astonishingly versatile baritone gives the album its soaring range. DHC composed the soundtrack for this year's Raindance award winning documentary 'The Ballad Of AJ Weberman', about the life of an obsessive Bob Dylan fan. He has also appeared in the upcoming one-man-band documentary 'One Man In The Band' (dir. Adam Clitheroe) and also on the USA Rockabilly label - Rock 'n' Roll Purgatory's 'Attack Of The One Man Band' compilation. The hyper-noir video for single "Little Johnny" was directed by Barney Clay who has also made promos for Dirty Pretty Things, John Spencer Blues Explosion, Bonde Do Role and Gnarls Barkley. Having played bass in The Silver Jets (who were signed to Blanco Y Negro) and cult band Menlo Park, further DHC collaborative work has heard him appear on albums by the Ralfe Band, Big Sur, and Cara Dillon, and tours with Seth Lakeman. Like the carburettor cowboys of the post-Woodstock road movies, setting out into DHC's edge-of-country country may promise an easy-ride and moonshine-redemption, but, like his silver-screen namesake's motorcycle at the end of Easy Rider, Chop will leave you in a flaming wreck with a mouthful of blood and grit on the side of the road to nowhere. Tracks: Little Johnny / I Was Born / Listening to MC5 / Fools Rush In / Ballad of Fu Manchu And The Red Bride / World Gone Green / Lust / If I Lied / Side Of The Universe Found / Donâ€™t Run From Me / Whispering In My Other Ear / Dancing Shoes / Stomp (Dennis Hopper Chopper vs Pete Wareham).
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