Pairing # 2 - DuClaw Serum - Blue Train, Spiral Joy Band and Workbook

This music is not the desert island discs in my library but they have their place.  They deliver emotional and my investigation of why they touch me.  Coltrane's Blue Train starts with a theme that has wormed into my cranium since college.  Curtis Fuller, Lee Morgan and Coltrane start by reciting that them over the solid rhythms and then Trane takes off to show why in 1957 he was going to re-write Jazz history.  This is pure hard bop, it is straight forward but not straight forward.  Tone, texture, nuance of all the players really comes out in repeated listening. Spiral Joy Band is an off shoot of the folks from Virginia/Wisconsin's Pelt.  This record is less jam and more ambient strings, harmonium and percussion. Pelt smacks me right away but this is a work in complexity that I'm starting to dig but again I don't fully understand.  DuClaw Serum Double IPA is 9% ABV and has a big flavor.  It is kinda fruity & malty without over doing it.  I hate beers that taste like a raspberry has been jammed therein. There is an earthy and minerality that really is something my palate craves. It would really taste great with spicy Thai food. If you drink a six pack you will be still searching for description.  Workbook is the first solo album by Bob Mould post Husker.  Husker's catalog is brimming with must haves.  This album loses some of the punk energy for late 80s pop energy.  The guitar is twangy and cymbals are running hot throughout and tend to work against the lyrics, The last Husker Du album Warehouse: Songs and Stories was the White Album of the 80s.  The band was falling apart and the song output was amazing.  Something about not liking each other lends to more songs.  This is an uncomfortable record in a good way.   All these things don't completely reveal themselves upon immediate consumption and they keep on giving each time.