Description:
With Heavy Ornamentals, The Gourds welcome you back on to their porch for another drink from "the jug" and another helping of their critic-confounding musical gumbo. Led by a pair of songwriting savants in the vein of Doug Sahm and Lowell George, The Gourds create an infectious blend of rock, country, Zydeco, soul, Tex-Mex, folk and blues which has prompted the Washington Post to say, "It`s hard to resist the contagious good time that the band seems to be having on every song." Flanked by a full van of guitars, violins, banjos and accordions, "This Austin institution," says the Austin Chronicle, "is as tough, colorful, and sometimes as warty as the vegetable they`re named for," and with a lyrical cast of characters running the gamut from panther-killing children, trash-carrying new roommates and tobacco-skinned women to the Devil himself, Blender says, "The Gourds are strange even when they`re serious." (Eleven Thirty Records)
