Deborah is the sound of Southern trailer-park aesthetics transplanted to a Californian stoner beach house. It'll make you want to sit on the porch all day with a couple of cold ones, 'cause, hell, what else is there to do -- besides maybe take a ride into town in your old beat-up Chevy...
Rust Belt Music's songs are a mix of rock, folk and country-western (with an occasional Moog line added for spice), and follow the path paved by Tom Petty, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Eagles and Woodie Guthrie ,as well as contemporaries like early REM and The Meat Puppets. Though a few of the tracks really take off ("Songs About Planes", "Love in the Rust/Sun/Grain Belt"), most remain laid-back in both music and lyrics. Singer/Guitarist John Lindenbaum projects in an open-your-mouth-and-speak-up-please reserved style: shy, clenched eyelids, much in a Kurt Cobain kind of way (as seen on the Unplugged in NYC performances). The lyrics speak of mining towns, love, fear, beer, inbreeding, anticipation and hope, all in an interesting narrative manner that hints at a deeper meaning.
Essentially, Deborah is a testament that familiar harmonies, a traditional rock ensemble and homegrown, rootsy lyrics can still tell new and compelling stories.
