Puerto Muerto: Songs of Muerto County
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They don't make movies like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre anymore. For all its chain-saw wounds and people hanging on meat hooks, the movie is mostly a triumph of atmosphere. As creepy as Leatherface was, the Sawyer house -- filled with odd taxidermy, bone chairs and a grandpa who couldn't move but could drink blood was the real shocker in the film. But something was missing from that atmosphere: music. Now that's changed, sort of, thanks to Puerto Muerto. The band, whose anachronistic sound and anarchic tales have inspired the label "punk folk," just completed recording Songs of Muerto County, a "lost" soundtrack to the classic film. Puerto Muerto is made up of St. Louis locals Tim Kelley (guitarist/vocalist) and Christa Meyer (drummer/vocalist). With albums titled Your Bloated Corpse Has Washed Ashore and See You in Hell, it isn't surprising that their take on American tradition is a little creepy. The songs are gorgeous and spare, including one beautiful waltz-time ballad -- perhaps some of the unlikeliest words to be attached to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The soundtrack portrays the mood of the old spaghetti westerns, which was Puerto Muerto's intent. " As it is, you really can't line the album up with the movie. There's another way to hear the music with the film. The duo will be hitting English theaters later this summer to play their soundtrack as the movie screens above them. Standard Jewel Case.
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