Trench Warfare, by Joe Diddley

Trench Warfare

by Joe Diddley

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The penultimate punkiest of turn-of-the-millennium optical media has to be the 3" CD. It was the Tijuana Bible of the no-audience underground. While cleaning out my basement last fall I found an unused case of 3" CDs and immediately knew the next Joe Diddley project would be a 20 minute EP that could be contained within those particular shiny confines.

Five bucks plus two for media mail shipping will get you the glorious droning blues and straining scraping loops of TRENCH WARFARE in a slick jewel case with original artwork by upfromsumdirt (upfromsumdirt.com). And it makes a great coaster, too!

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1.	The Battle of Vimy Ridge 05:17	info	buy track
2.	Hurry Home, Wilfred Owen 04:37	info	buy track
3.	Spoonful 08:20	info	buy track
4.	Armistice Day 01:45	info	buy track

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TRENCH WARFARE is the dirge of the current, the current events and the current of the water. Looping and grating and never resolving, Joe Diddley has managed to find the pulse of the ether and reverberates it here. This is noisy, dense, and blue.

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released July 4, 2019

JOE DIDDLEY: acoustic and electric guitars, acoustic and electric diddley bows, tubular bells, cello, direction, production
THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STUFF: rhythm and lead fear
UPFROMSUMDIRT: front cover art (upfromsumdirt.com)
CODA TO CODA: audio reconstruction of the guns falling silent on track 4 (codatocoda.com)

All songs written and performed by Joe Diddley except track 3 which was written by Willie Dixon and is done much better by Cream on side three of 'Wheels of Fire.'

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Joe Diddley Uranium City, Saskatchewan

Twanging a single string for truth, justice, and the downtrodden, Joe Diddley reconstituted the dormant Strategic Air Command of the U.S. Air Force and began broadcasting strange blues recordings along the defunct Distant Early Warning radar installations near the arctic circle in 1958. ... more

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