WHITE NOISE RE-RELEASES ‘YES I WILL, MR. MAN’
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Yes I Will, Mr Man
vocals, guitar- Amanda Jo Williams
lead guitar- Matthew O’Neill
bass- Mike Dunn
drums, percussion, piano- Andy Martin
vocals- Avalon Peacock
fiddle- Larry Packer
recorded in 2006 at Crack Signal Recording
engineered by Andrew Martin
Yes I Will, Mr Man was recorded in Woodstock, NY, on 18 secluded acres of beautiful Catskill forest, in two days. A lot of the songs were inspired by love, even the fiery political ones are driven by being in love.—Going all the way out to New Mexico because he said, “If you’re ever in New Mexico, look me up.” Going all the way there to Truth and Consequences and back in a rusty pick-up truck with a few screws loose. You can hear it in the rattling, bumpy drums and creaking guitar chugging along this wild ride. The energy. It’s rabid country music played by skilled, risk-taking musicians. Williams sings loudly. She slurs and cracks with the charred inflection of a cartoon commander from the South wearing fatigues and war paint to the grocery store, fighting for freedom in the mundane everyday.
The song “Yes I Will, Mr. Man” is channelled. Williams couldn’t tell you what it’s about. Except for the bridge. She had a beautiful man in mind when she wrote the bridge, but that’s not really important. “Ohio” was written in Brooklyn thinking about love, Amanda’s ever-present muse. She likes Vietnam. Her daddy was in Vietnam. She likes camouflage and hiding in the woods. “All The Mountains” is a love song about a cold, confident Gemini’s swagger, written during a modeling job in London. In “Nobody Can Love You Like I Do,” Amanda imagined a woman trying to get her power back after a relationship. She’s getting strong. She’s getting there. Williams offers her politics on “Just Because The Rains Don’t Fall In Texas” and “Hey Hey Hey Hey,” as she proclaims, “I am living, I am living like a wild woman!” She’s more the spiritual type, but Yes I Will, Mr Man captures Williams getting radical, scratching her back against American conventionalism, ready to take on the world with an accent thick as bacon.