QUINTORIAN BLUES

When Frank Hurricane comes into a room, it's really something. As his name?implies, he is impossible to ignore. He has built an alarmingly nuanced lexicon out?of an amazingly limited number of phrases. 'Psychedelic.' 'Spiritual.' 'Holy.'?'Gangsta.' 'Pimp.' 'Bro.' 'Homie.' In the hands of the culture-at-large, these terms?have long lost whatever literal or subcultural meaning they may have once had?and are now so incredibly overused as to be stripped of any meaning whatsoever.?In Frank's hands, though, each of these words comes alive and full of varied?meaning. On paper here it looks ridiculous, but in the throat of Frank Hurricane?they breathe and dance in indescribable ways. There is no way to experience?Hurricanes Of Love, Frank's acoustic guitar-based musical project, without?surrendering to his singular and indescribable charm. His pleasant picking gives?way to manic strumming, stuttering and unpredictable motifs or, hopefully,?incredibly meandering verbal introductions. Frank is a wild and singular storyteller,?often providing rambling preambles during his live sets that can out-last the?songs themselves. Side three of this LP is called 'Holy Story,' and ostensibly does?nothing more than provide Frank with a platform for introducing his next song,?'Moose Lake Blues.' What actually happens, though, is that where most people?would simply say 'I wrote this next song on tour,' Frank stretches out, providing?tributaries of backstory. We meet all kinds of characters, all presented through?Frank's strange lens, and it's a treat. It's just as tempting to put Frank in a You?Can't Win-style hobo camp as it is to make sense of him as a post-Tim And Eric?product of the psych-folk/noise-tape boom, but these sorts of categories invariably?break down when confronted with actual life, and Quintorian Blues is nothing else?if not a report back from Frank's actual life. You can't throw a roach clip out the?driver's-side window these days without hitting a finger-picking guitarist, but you?can't throw a star across the galaxy and hit anything like Frank Hurricane, and?with those odds, how can you refuse' --Matt Krefting, Easthampton, MA, 2014?TRACKLISTING?A1. Quintorian Blues?A2. Winter Home?B1. Rich Mountain Blues?B2. Quartz Blues?B3. Eternal Friend?B4. Minneapolis Blies?C1. Holy Story?D1. Moses Lake Blues?D2. Late Nite Brew?D3. Lonesome Mountain Blues