The Detroit Cobras - Tried And True

Untrained and undisciplined (and how!), Rachel started out by belting revved-up rock yowlers and has grown into the gen-u-ine gutsy,  vulnerable, delicate and commanding  soul-on-the-edge singer. She effortlessly glides from R&B sass, to girl group  pathos to kitten-with-a-whip toughness with a snap of her chipped fingernails. Longtime musical partner in crime, guitarist Mary Ramirez keeps the DE-troit Motor City in the Cobras with her car body shop wallop, greasy rock ‘n soul rhythms and a bold grasp of old school, big room arrangements. Stretching out in the studio like never before, and including contributions from top line players like Greg Cartwright (Reigning Sound) the Cobras have created  a versatile and formidable wall of Spector sound (is that timpani you’re hearing here and there? Yer goddam right it is).  Be it eerie or orchestral, or pure rock and roll rough up, ‘Tied & True’ puts the Cobras on a whole new level—of many sources but a genus all its own.

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