One of the best non-black-metal images I've ever seen: King Dude.
King Dude – “My Beloved Ghost” MP3/download
[Check out specs of King Dude's reissued "Beloved Ghost" album HERE]
King Dude is a mellow name to christen oneself with when the music is so salient-sounding I feel like I should be arming myself or at least storing some extra food in my basement like my Mormon mom does. “My Beloved Ghost” is the stuff of quiet, midievil urgency or, at the very least, humble doomsday-ing, like Pearls Before Swine swilling Micah P. Hinson‘s better work and chasing it with a hard SURGE of Syd Barrett, Edward Ka-Spel, Leonard Cohen and pretty much any other dude who’s managed to sing lowwwww and tender without causing the in-the-know-ers to lose interest.
TJ Cowgill — also of Book Of Black Earth and Cross, apparently; never heard either, though I’d like to — is the man behind the King Dude mask (anyone remember King God while we’re on the subject of royal band names? They were awesome and beat the ’80s revival rush by a good five-to-seven years), and I haven’t been as struck by a baritonal indie songster this hard since ingesting Kurt Vile‘s Childish Prodigy circa a few years ago … high praise (though Vile has lost me with the full-band stuff), as I’ve come to love Prodigy, but there’s still a lot of material I’ve yet to delve into so I’m not going to start sucking face just yet.
