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... Read Full Story
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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... Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
Oh shit! Two days. Two Swedish bands. If it weren’t the fact that over the two years of ninebullets existence this might be the fifth Swedish band I’ve written about you could mistake me for Swedesplease . Well, there’s that and the little things like the fact that they wrote about Lancaster Orchestra’s cd, Never Cried Once When I Could Have , back in 2006 when it was new. New or not, ninebullets.net’s goal is to write about good music not just good new music…and to say Never Cried Once... Read Full Story
From an LSS myspace bulletin:
Ladies and gentlemen,
As our good buddy David Lee is currently tearing up his bicycling career all over the world, please meet the NEW guitarist for the Legendary Shack Shakers: Duane Denison.
Duane first came to public notice through his work with Chicago indie rock icons The Jesus Lizard. But he has also worked with a wide variety of internationally acclaimed artists including Hank Williams III, Mike Patton/Tomahawk, Bobby Bare, the Silver Jews and... Read Full Story
Wanna see some seriously awesome segue skills? The post below here contains a Split Lip Rayfield track and now I am gonna post about the new episode of It Burns When I Pee which features an interview with Wayne Gottstine from Split Lip Rayfield…
BOOYAHKASHA!
Folks, it’s that kinda shit right there that separates the blogging boys from the blogging men.
They also feature music from a little band out of Atlanta we recently discussed and are great fans of, Missy Gossip and The Secret... Read Full Story
... Hi: Walt Cronin here. Just wanted to introduce myself and tell you a little about the recent happenings with our CD "The Gousters." We're currently listed at #15 on California Roots Music Report. We also were notified by our publisher Heyday Media Group that 3 of the songs off our CD are slated to be on the soundtrack of an independent film comedy called"Last Call at Murrays." ( check IMDb ) We're thrilled with the positive reviews and building attention of our CD written by myself and... Read Full Story
