Strawfoot is “an angry preacher and a bunch of foul-mouthed heathens” from somewhere in St. Louis. The moment I heard the track “Damnation Way” from the Rodentia compilation I was excited almost to the point of being giddy to hear more music from them. Within 5 minutes of hearing them for the first time I was downloading their complete album from Amazon MP3.
Often in times like these you find that your hopes are met by inconsistent music that never quite measure up to the song that got you there. By the time I had gotten to the third track, “Chasing Locusts," I knew that "Damnation Way," the tune that had introduced me to Strawfoot, wasn’t even their best.
This article appears in Apr 1-7, 2009.