Their sound is hardly original, the feral punk-blues of the Gun Club and the Birthday Party drips from them, and a band so skilled in provocation can hardly be uncalculating themselves.
Painting themselves blue, as my feral children do, quite unlike Mel Gibson in 'Braveheart.' " The children to whom she was referring, four-year-old fraternal twins named Honor and Xavier ("She is my honor and he is my savior"), are as slippery-limbed as their mother.
In his encore, Willie Dixon's "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man," Mr. Generet abandoned suavity to unleash a raw blues growl as feral as that of Muddy Waters, who popularized this swaggering virile boast.
This kind of intramural violence was not uncommon in an earlier, more rough-and-tumble blues era, and that feral energy made its way onto recordings, assuring both Wolf and Sumlin a measure of musical immortality.
So in January, the Humane Alliance started a program called "Blue Collar Cats," farming out captured feral felines to people who are having trouble with rodents at their homes or places of business.
(Petrusich) FERAL FOSTER, MAMIE MINCH (Saturday) Prewar country and blues reign at this local Americana showcase, which also features John and Eden's East River String Band and the Legendary Otis Brothers.
August Wildflower Convocation presents a 72-by-72-inch 72-by-72-inch 72-by-72-inch 72-by-72-inchung from the canvas of some watery bloadedrface.
Expect gut-wrenching, down-and-dirty blues, visual jokes, expert theremin playing and enough feral bellowing to scare every chicken in the five boroughs.
Read a full review 27 Blue Ruin director Jeremy Saulnier pits a bunch of rockers against feral, marauding skinheads (led by Patrick Stewart) in a gruesomely effective siege-horror flick.
Their style was a rejection of arena-rock bands such as Led Zeppelin and the blues roots music of the Allman Brothers in favor of the feral sound of early Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly.
