Ain’t nobody gonna love me like the devil do...
Like most of the music I discovered as a teenager, I found out about Holly Golightly through her affiliation with the White Stripes. The first time I heard her was on the last track of the White Stripes record Elephant, “Well It’s True That We Love One Another”. Later I heard her singing on the Greenhornes’ 2002 Dual Mono. In 2008, I found out she was coming to town with the Brokeoffs, and since I really liked the few things I’d heard from her before, I went to the show.
It wasn’t until I got there that I realized “the Brokeoffs” were actually just one guy – Lawyer Dave. [He’s not really a lawyer. Evidently the name is an inside joke between the duo that somehow involves a coffee mug.] But he did an excellent job of compensating for being just one guy/not a lawyer by playing drums with his feet, playing slide guitar and singing simultaneously.
Their sound is very pared down - a kind of twangy country-blues that’s often lyrically hilarious [“I’m getting high for Jesus because he got so low for me”]. And they put on great live shows. Not only is the music excellent, but the dynamic between the older, very-English-woman-moved-South Holly, and the younger, Texas-born-and-bred Lawyer Dave makes for a very amusing contrast of accents and between-song story telling.
They have four albums to date:
You Can’t Buy A Gun When You’re Crying 2007
Dirt Don’t Hurt 2008
Medicine County 2010
No Help Coming 2011
And here is there myspace page, where you can hear all the hits:
http://www.myspace.com/hollygolightlyandthebrokeoffs
