I never really heard of Charlie Pickett, or I should say I’ve never really heard any of his music, I remember hearing about him during the 80’s, but I wasn’t really into music back then. So when I came across a review of his new album, Bar Band Americanus, over at No Depression, I was a little impressed by what I read. I listened to a couple of tracks they had posted on the No Depression website, one was Overtown, it’s about a junky looking for a fix, going to get some of that Overtown Brown. it ain’t the best but it’s always around ...
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We’re Baaaacccckkk… The Lucero Message Board has made a triumphant return and the regular posters are beginning to wander back in. By next month everything will be back to normal. The May compilation was made while the message board was still down. This time around it included folks from the Drag the River message board as well. Unfortunately, I did not get in on the submissions for the May comp so I’m like you…a mere listener. One fella that has really stood out to me is Roger Alan Wade. He has two tracks from his new cd, Stoned Traveler, featured on the comp and ...
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This is a very interesting album, a good kind of interesting, it reminds me of the old singing cowboy shows that used to come on television when my parents were young, but with a modern, and sometimes sinister, twist. Western Tales & Trails is a mix of dark lyrics, surrounded by an upbeat tempo, and Jim White vocal styling, it all comes together pretty well, it’s a lyrical portrait of old west stories, filled with kidnapping, murder and all around violent things. My only problem with the album is that it didn’t get my adrenaline going the way I thought it would when I ...
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When I was a kid I knew Waycross, Georgia because it had a Burger King and when I was going up to see family we’d stop there. Waycross was also the hometown of the Burt Reynolds character, Stroker Ace. The latest thing to bring the fine town of Waycross to my consciousness is the Shut Eye Records artists, Hayshaker. Hayshaker features the husband and wife duo of CC and Laurie Rider sharing vocal duties with guitarist T.W. Lott and drummer Frank Sikes rounding out the quartet. Hayshaker made the hour and a half trek down to Jacksonville’s Vision Sound Studios to record their seven ...
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Dave Insley’s path to country music seems to be another version of a now fairly common story for many Texas honkytonk musicmakers: Blue collar working parents with an extensive country/western vinyl collection, skip forward to a kid playing in various country and rock bands, then and at some point finds himself trying to mesh punk rock and country into something he could call his own. Somewhere along the way the rock fades and the pedal steel swells aaand another punk rock vet turns honky tonk hero. It’s an odd progression, but it happens so often it has to be natural in some fashion. Hell, ...
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