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63. Webb Wilder, Hybrid Vigor
It's good for a performer to have a credo, and Webb Wilder's is particularly solid: Work Hard, Rock Hard, Eat Hard, Sleep Hard, Grow Big, Wear Glasses If You Need Em. The bespectacled gunslinger lived up to his ethos and then some on the second album by the quartet that bears his name. Hybrid Vigor, the band's debut on Island Records, is full of brash, robust, swampy rock songs about all-night juke joints and human cannonballs. There music has been explained every which way, from "interplanetary southern roots rock" to "swampadelic uneasy listening music," but Wilder himself offers a description that's as plain and perfect as can be. According to Wilder, "We're basically a rock 'n' roll band who aren't afraid to go out on a limb and saw it off, just for a buzz." The sound of their record then is a little like that made by a band of troubadours crashing through branches on their downward plummet, whooping enthusiastically all the way.
