That Ward Dotson sure is a versatile son of a Gun Club. In addition to serving in the late Jeffrey Lee Pierce's swamp-bluesy outfit, Dotson co-founded the appealingly Stonesy Pontiac Brothers and played in both the Hello Strangers and girl-group revivalists the Pussywillows. His current project Liquor Giants, now six years and four albums old, is a band that at the time of its second release, Here, earned the enviable description "Rockpile meets the Replacements".
The goal of Every Other Day At A Time seems to be to jam 30-odd years of pop music influences into sixteen two-and-a-half-minute songs, from the Brit-Invasion-redux adventures of "Dearest Darling" and the Beach Boys bounce of "Caroline" to "What's The New Mofo", which comes off like a valiant effort by the Zombies to record a roots-rock song. Occasionally, Dotson telegraphs his punches -- it doesn't take a rock 'n' roll scholar to predict a song that begins with the line "Eight miles down" ("I'll Never Mind") just might end up sounding a little like the Byrds -- but that's all part of the fun.
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