Nashville's The Clutters are one of the few proper rock bands playing in the city. Within seconds of seeing them live or hearing their record, T&C, you'll know that they are a band unconcerned with the fashion of the moment. They bash out three minute nuggets of verse-chorus-verse pleasure with plenty of crunch. Between the rusty power chords, walking bass lines, and a hell of a lot of cymbals, you'll hear squeaky guitar leads and a Farfisa. It's too messy for polite company, but too fun to keep to yourself.

"I'm a little late on this one: The debut blast from this Nashville anomaly, a straight-ahead garage-rock band complete with Farfisa organ, came out last spring. But the Clutters have a loose notion of place and time -- with a push and punch ("Crack Your Heart," "Oh!") back-dated to Fifties Memphis and Hamburg's Star Club in the mid-Sixties -- so I'm not so far behind the eight ball. I've yet to see the band live, but I damn well know what to expect when I do."

-David Fricke - Rolling Stone

"Most impressive is the sense one gets that this band is simply doing what it wants to do, and doing it in a city that plays host to lightly fluffed pop and glossy production."

-Cameron Lawrence - Paste Magazine

"Anachronistic in the best sense. With '50s rockabilly swagger and '70s punk brashness, they bash out rock 'n' roll with the glee and rebellion the latter genre demands, but without descending into faux angst."

-Todd Anderson -popshot.net

Don't Believe A Word - Album
Chicken Ranch Records - 2007 (May 1st)
CRR1016

9999 (Ways To Hates Us)
Radio
Living Thing
Rockaway
Fire
The Way Home
On Repeat
The Short One
Aww, C'mon
Let It Roll
Temperature
Surrender

T&C - Album
Chicken Ranch Records - 2005
CRR1003

Crack Your Heart
Clash City Girl
You'll Never Be Famous
Rock & Roll
The Untitled One
Oh!
Leave It Behind
Nothing
Calling Her Name
I Wanna Live...
Polaroid
When Worlds Divide
Busted Dreams/Broken Heart

 

Oh! - 7"
Wrecked'Em Wreckords - 2003
WRECKED-007

SIDE A
Oh!
Reason to Complain (The Alarm Clocks)
Don't Care About Me

SIDE B
Crack Your Heart
Are You Ready For The Country (Neil Young)

 

The Drew E.P. - 2001?
CD-R limited release

back of my mind
calling her name
busted dreams, broken heart
cup of coffee