Honky's Ladder by Afghan Whigs

Honky's Ladder, a 1996 EP from Cincinnati's Afghan Whigs, came out on Mute Records in the gap between the What Jail Is Like EP and the full-length Black Love, a short stopover rather than a grand statement. The band at the time was Greg Dulli singing and playing rhythm guitar, Rick McCollum on lead guitar, John Curley on bass and Paul Buchignani, then a member, filling out the lineup.

By now the Whigs had long since left their scrappy, Replacements-style garage days behind, three years on from Gentlemen, their major-label debut on Elektra, and they were steeping their alternative rock in R&B and soul. Dulli sings like a man who would rather seduce you than save you, and McCollum's guitar slinks around him. Among its songs is "Creep".

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