By Will McGuirk

Kat crosses the threshold of Kops, spins a disc at the POS and it lands in the player tray. And a sidewinder snakes thru the store, a lazy, lowly, slinky slide of gritted silk.

Kat calls himself Dandy Lyon and kat plus Bella Rose, are this indigo duo, they call themselves “Dandy Lyon Wine’. “Stilled” is their hope, its the record of their hope. “Stilled” will be the mover that shakes this indigo duo free.

Dandy and Bella must have taken the trip to the Crossroads but what they found there must have been more Green than Cream. And a whole lotta Young. A whole lotta when Young was finding his blues groove with ‘Chrome Dreams II’, ‘Sleeps With Angels’, and ‘This Note’s For You’, and yes yes yes the deepest of them all ‘On The Beach.’

Its the languid flow of “Tolls” that calls forth Shakey’s rhapsody in blue for his Hogtown roots from his shoreline musings but there’s more rust on the tracks of Dandy Lyon Wine than sand. This recording picks up the flakes of oxidized metal found in Blind Melon, White Stripes, G. Love & his Special Sauce, Primitive Radio Gods and Nirvana unplugging and (to whip a metaphor into submission) ‘Weld’s them into this 2020 release. Dig into the “Graveyard Blues”, “Sleepless Night” and “Storm” and stain your hands on the blues going into the black.

This “Stilled” takes the essence of them all and yes yes yes one has to say from the essence made Dandy Lyon Wine.