Bottomy

Describing Wilson's rich, bottomy contralto in musical terms doesn't quite work.

But though there's definitely power in the bottomy drumming of Angela Horton--whose setup includes a timpani--on their eponymously titled debut (on Blue Mountain's Black Dog label), the Satyrs usually choose not to, favoring eerie southern-gothic balladry with a Floydian psychedelic tinge and the occasional Middle Eastern twinge.

Burrell is at his fiery best, attacking bottomy chords with sledgehammer power--there's not a ragtime riff in sight.