Big Red Goad - Truck Drivin' Psycho (1997)

Genre: Country
Origin: Atlanta, GA
Label: Self Released
File: 47 Mb (320kbps VBR)

Track List:

01. A Tiger In My Tank (3:08)
02. Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves (3:30)
03. Thunder On The Road! (2:12)
04. A Tombstone Every Mile (3:13)
05. Payload Daddy (1:30)
06. I Got Lost (2:13)
07. My Bucket's Got A Hole In It (2:50)
08. Movin' On (2:23)
09. Understand Your Man (2:35)
10. Big Rig Rollin' Man (2:43)
11. Truck-Drivin' Son Of A Gun (2:12)
12. Freightliner Fever (3:03)
13. Jackknife (2:25)
14. Poor White Trash (1:56)

Total Playing Time: 35:53

Back in the 90's, the best high school teacher I ever had loaned me a copy of a zine that would forever change my life. It was called "ANSWER ME!" and had everything you would want to know about Serial Killers, Suicide, Depravity and of course, El Duce. I was never actually able to find my own copies until they were all reprinted as a huge book a few years ago (minus the Rape issue). The man behind this zine was Jim Goad. I later found out he had recorded a country album back in 1996, which is what you are about to download, right?!? As you might have guessed by the title, the majority of the songs are about Truck Driving across America and the shit that goes along with it. This is some classic, Johnny Cash influenced Country Music. Put the pedal to the metal and listen to some quality, REAL and rare White Trash Cuntry.

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Slackeye Slim - Texas Whore Pleaser (2007)

"Slackeye Slim began In the fall of 2006, with the demise of his noise/punk band in the recent past, Joe Frankland began to look for a new band. Growing frustrated with the lack of creative musicians in his rural Northeast Ohio town, he decided to begin a solo project. Having no experience with any instrument other than bass guitar, he began to collect various instruments and learn how to play them.

Frankland created a zombified and cannibalistic caricature of himself, based loosely on his frustrations with the modern world and American culture combined with his interest in history and especially the American West. He called this character Slackeye Slim and began to write and record a series of songs.

Less than a year after Joe Frankland began working on the first songs he had ever written as a solo artist, Slackeye Slim began to gain enough of a following to offer support for national acts, such as Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, Those Poor Bastards, The .357 String Band, and Graham Lindsey.

On Christmas Day of 2007, Slackeye Slim’s first album, “Texas Whore Pleaser” was released. Completely self-produced and self-released, Slackeye Slim’s debut features twelve tracks and guest vocals by Lonesome Wyatt of Those Poor Bastards.

In spring of 2008, Joe Frankland and his brother, Eric Frankland, packed their things and headed west to Anaconda, Montana." ~ Last.FM


Track Listing

1.	Looks Like I Killed Again
2.	Evil Eye
3.	Missy Columbia
4.	I Wanna Be Yer Zombie
5.	My Name Ain't Tex
6.	Cowboy's Lament
7.	Wide Open Spaces
8.	Don't Touch My Horse
9.	No Place Fer Me
10.	Chuck Violence
11.	Texas Whore Pleaser
12.	Just as Soon as I Wound This Man

SS - Texas Whore Pleaser

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Joe Buck Yourself (2007)

2007 - Joe Buck Yourself

The once anti-Nashville Joe Buck gained notoriety as the guitarist of Th' Legenday Shack Shakers. As Hank III's villianous sideman, the snarling upright bass player became infamously recognizable. Joe Buck Yourself is now a bonefide evil motherfucking, one man band. This unique blend of hellbilly punkrock ain't your grandma's hillbilly music. Joe Buck Yourself, mother fuckers! (taken from his website).


Track Listing:

1.  Dig A Hole
2.  Are You My Enemy
3.  I Will Survive
4.  Devil Is On His Way
5.  Hillbilly Speedball
6.  I Want Revenge
7.  Bitter Is The Day
8.  Planet Seeth
9.  Evil Motherfucker From TN
10. Took Up With The Devil
11. Born To Scare
12. Hillbilly Pride
13. Intreatment All

Here's one that hopefully needs no introduction.  This crazy motherfucker is on tour right now with the Antiseen and The Goddamn Gallows so If they happen to pass through your neck of the woods, do yourself a big favor and check them out. 

Check him out HERE

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Billy Joe Shaver - The Real Deal (2005)

The man, they myth, the friggin' legend...and the voice behind the intro to "Squidbillies"!. This guy bleeds reality. Even shot a dude in the face outside a Texas bar in '07. Yep, good times.....


""Live Forever", the opening song on Billy Joe Shaver's new album, begins with a prophetic warning: "I'm gonna live forever/ I'm gonna cross that river/ I'm gonna kiss tomorrow now." Shortly after, Shaver defiantly proclaims, "You're gonna miss me when I'm gone." Those familiar with Shaver's career and legacy see the profound symbolism in these lyrics and, perhaps with a hint of sadness, realize their accuracy. Shaver is one of those rare artists who actually deserves the title of "artist"; he's a man who sings not to earn money or accolades, but to chase away the demons that accompany a life of bad breaks and unspeakable loss.

Just five years ago, he lost both his wife and mother in the span of a month, only to lose his son shortly after to drug addiction. Then Shaver nearly died himself from heart failure after collapsing on stage on 4 July 2001. And if all this sounds tragic, it was just a year in the life of a man whose life has been filled with similar tales of tragedy. There's no need or space to list them all here -- just know that the man has been where most of us would not want to tread.

So when Shaver, referring to his body of work, says he's going to live forever, it means something. And when he says that he'll be missed when he's gone, perhaps he realizes that a talent such as his cannot be appreciated by the present, but only revealed by the clarity of history. Still, while Shaver is not a household name, the artists he has written for are: Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, the Allman Brothers, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson... Any person with the slightest knowledge of music is familiar with Shaver's work, which spans from old-school country to country-rock to blues to downright honky tonk. On The Real Deal, his newest album, Shaver again shows his impressive range by tapping into the various influences of his career.

While Shaver's music is versatile, the subject matter of his songs has always been rooted in the old country tradition. Classic topics abound: wrong living, heartbreak and regret, and religion. When Shaver sings about these topics, however, the words have credence. Like Woody Guthrie, another great American poet, Billy Joe has been there, and his voice resonates with God-like authority. Indeed, Shaver's age serves as an asset, lending his songs a stoic wisdom only attained through years of dealing with the letdowns of life.

Take, for instance, "It Just Ain't There for Me No More", in which he bravely accepts the failure of a relationship: "It just ain't there for me no more/ Not the way it was before/ Just like a wall without a door..." Shaver's voice, while thick and rich, sounds battered and scarred, which underscores the theme of dissolved love. Then there's "There's No Fool Like an Old Fool", where he concedes that his judgment hasn't always been up to par: "There's no fool like an old fool/ I'm living proof of that/ For years my head has been/ Just a place to hang my hat." In both these songs, Shaver addresses loss and regret, but not with the paralyzing preoccupation of a young man. Rather, these songs somehow sound uplifting, sung by a man who knows that time always compensates for what it takes.

Musically, The Real Deal explores the various strains of country, from the mainstream pop sensibilities of "If the Trailer's Rockin' Don't Come Knockin'" to the spare folk of "Valentine" to the front-porch fiddle sway of "You Ought to Be with Me When I'm Alone". Shaver has defied neat categorization because of his ability to move around within country and rock, sounding equally at ease probing the softer side of the former and the rowdy tendencies of the latter. Whatever the genre or subgenre, however, Shaver always sounds... well, like the real deal. Even when he teams up with the mega-mainstream Big and Rich on "Live Forever", the result respects -- rather than exploits -- the conventions of country.

Overall, The Real Deal is testament to the versatility and virtuoso of Billy Joe Shaver. Inspired and impassioned, it's a joyous celebration of the transcendent power of music. At this point in his career, Shaver is past chasing fame. Instead, these songs represent what sustains a man who has survived life's toughest blows. Like Dylan after his flirtation with death, Shaver sounds reborn, happy to find solace in chords and melodies, and happy to forget the specific by offering it to the universal. Well into his 60s, Shaver is making music like a man who feels invincible." ~ Popmatters

1. Live Forever - (with Big & Rich)

2. There's No Fool Like An Old Fool

3. Livin' A Lovin' Lie

4. It Just Ain't There For Me No More

5. Jesus Christ Is Still The King

6. Slim Chance And The Can't Hardly Playboys - (with Kevin Fowler)

7. I Changed My Mind

8. Sweet Melody

9. Valentine - (with Nanci Griffith)

10. You Ought To Be With Me When I'm Alone

11. Down The Road By The Way

12. West Texas Waltz - (with Kimmie Rhodes)

13. Real Deal, The

14. If The Trailer's Rockin' Don't Come Knockin'

15. Try And Try Again

16. Aunt Jessie's Chicken Ranch

17. Feliz Navidad - (with Flaco Jimenez)

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Scott H. Biram - Somethings Wrong /Lost Forever (2009)

2009 - Something's Wrong/Lost Forever

Rock ‘n’ Roll ain’t pretty and neither is Scott H. Biram. The self proclaimed ‘Dirty Old One Man Band’ successfully, and sometimes violently, lashes together blues, hillbilly and country precariously to raucous punk and godless metal.

Biram ain’t no candy-ass singer/songwriter either, sweetly strumming songs about girls with big eyes and dusty highways. HELL NO!!! His singing, yodeling, growling, leering and brash preachin’ and hollerin’ is accompanied by sloppy riffs and licks from his 1959 Gibson guitar and pounding backbeat brought forth by his amplified left foot. The remainder of this one-man band consists of an unwieldy combination of beat-up amplifiers and old microphones strung together by a tangled mess of guitar cables.

Years of non-stop touring have honed his assault to a fine edge; his wide-eyed throw downs in the First Church of Ultimate Fanaticism routinely lead giddy followers to a fiery baptism.

Scott H. Biram won’t die. On May 11th, 2003, one month after being hit head-on by an 18-wheeler at 75 MPH, he took the stage at The Continental Club in Austin, TX in a wheel chair – I.V. still dangling from his arm. With 2 broken legs, a broken foot, a broken arm and 1 foot less of his lower intestine, Biram unleashed his trademark musical wrath.

When Scott H. Biram took the stage at his 2004 SXSW festival showcase right after Kris Kristofferson he was quoted as growling “They said that was a hard act to follow….I’m a hard act to follow motherfuckers!!” The stunned crowd looked on.

“Scott’s self described ‘dirty old one-man band’ had a captivating immediacy that big rock shows rarely reach. On stage Scott is a man possessed, spitting and snarling like a Mississippi juke-joint shouter on a moonshine bender.” – Eben Sterling, Thrasher

“He has a true stage presence that could be fairly compared to that of Clint Eastwood on film. The dude’s more dude than most other dudes you will ever meet.” – Austin Columnist

“An impassioned multi-instrumentalist unleashing a brutal cacophany with the fury of someone whose check from the Devil finally cleared. Half dirty blues, half underground punk, half honky-tonk, half revival meeting…oh shut up about the math. You’ll see the light.” – Dayna Papaleo, Rochester City News

“His barbarous exorcism of Depression-era blues—with a bedrock of frantic flatpicking, foot stomps into a floor mike, and gutteral growls through a distortion mike—has made Biram a rising star in Austin.” – Brian T. Atkinson, No Depression

“Biram is the kind of guy you don’t laugh at all the way just in case he really is crazy. We all wanna be entertained, but nobody wants to get stabbed in the head with a screwdriver.” – Frank de Blase, Rochester City News

“With a raw immediacy that recalls Hasil Adkins and Bob Log III, Biram specializes in a twisted hybrid of gutbucket, hillbilly and godless metal. He’ll praise the virtues of moonshine and titty bars one minute, then tongue-lash city slickers and hippies the next.” – John La Briola, Houston Press

Track Listing:

1.   Hospital Escape
2.   Time Flies
3.   Sinkin’ Down
4.   Still Drunk, Still Crazy, Still Blue
5.   Aint It a Shame
6.   Judgement Day
7.   Draggin’ Down The Line
8.   Feel So Good
9.   Wildside
10. Hard Time
11. The Wishing Well
12. Go Down Ol’ Hanna


Here's another great album in rotation at my house right now.   This guy is is high on Hee Haw.  I swear, and listening to this makes me feel like I am too.  This is serious beer drinkin' Southern fried angry music at it's finest.


Check him out HERE


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He'll be touring this Europe April / May, so be sure to catch him when he passes through.
  

Sean Reefer and The Resin Valley Boys - Texas Hill Country (2003)

Swampchode,
I would like to contribute a link to a album I uploaded for you to post on your teriffic blog, if you like it. Maybe you know of this cat maybe not, Sean Reefer & and the Resin Valley Boys outta Huston, Texas. Here's their outstanding 2003 debut (and only release)"Texas Hill Country". You pretty much know what you're gonna get with a name like that! Traditional country sound with songs about grow'n, smoke'n, drink'n and more smoke'n..ha! I hope you enjoy

Thanks T! I definitely enjoyed the hell outta this!

2003 - Texas Hill Country

Sean Raiford formed the Resin Valley Boys with the goal of bringing the sounds of classic country and western swing music back to a world that had forgotten how to two-step. Sean and the Boys quickly built a reputation as the swinginest band from Houston Texas, cementing that reputation with the release of their first full length album, "Texas Hill Country," in 2003. Their first nominations for Best C&W Act and Best New Act from the Houston Press Music Awards soon followed. Since then, Sean Reefer and the Resin Valley Boys have appeared onstage with such Texas legends as Asleep At The Wheel, Dale Watson, FlameTrick Subs, Alvis Wayne, and Wayne "The Train" Hancock, and national acts like David Allan Coe, Deke Dickerson, Scott H. Biram, Dave Alvin and the Guilty Men, Weary Boys, Big Sandy and his Flyrite Boys, Wanda Jackson, Joe Ely, Billy Joe Shaver, and Junior Brown.

    In 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 Sean and the Boys received nominations for Best C&W Act from the Houston Press Music Awards, winning the prestigious title in '05 and '06 and '09. In 2007 the band won both the American Marijuana Music Award and Global Marijuana Music Award for best Country Song and in 2008 they won the Global Marijuana Music Award for best Country Song.

    Sean has been busy singing all over the great state of Texas ever since, winning new fans in every honky-tonk, dancehall, and lounge he and the Boys play in. Currently, they are in the studio recording material for a forthcoming, brand new full length release. Watch for them soon in your town. And bring your dancin' shoes; they'll wear 'em out for you soon enough.


Track Listing:

1.  The Other Side
2.  Bowl of Schwag
3.  Whiskey Bottle
4.  Texas Hill Country
5.  Diggin' In the Dirt
6.  Big Green Freight
7.  Swamp Booger Boogie
8.  When My Momma Told Me
9.  Do It All Wrong
10. Light It Don't Hide It
11. Reefer Blues
12. Green Yodel #1

This album was sent in by one of our regular visitors here, Mr. T.  I can't believe I never heard this album before actually, especially because 1. I love smoking the "Devil's Lettuce" and 2.  I love good old-time country music.  Definitely check this out if you like either no. 1 or 2.



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(Thanks again to Mr. T!)

Joey Allcorn - All Alone Again - 2009

Woah! Somehow or another I completely forgot that Joey was releasing a new album and I'm totally kicking myself in the ass for not finding this a lot sooner. In case you missed his first cd (which is posted here) don't make that mistake this time! I highly recommend this guy to anybody who likes Hank Sr., Jr. or III or Earl Scruggs, Faron Young, Jimmy Martin, etc...Joey Allcorn is one of the very few country musicians that are trying to take country music back to it's 50's and 60's heyday, current popularity and album sales be damned. Fuck the radio.....

And sorry for the super-sized review but it's a good one :


"Self-discovery. It is a lifelong journey for all of us, and the journey is different for each of us. As each day passes, we learn a little more about who we are, and the direction in which we’re headed. This is certainly true for Joey Allcorn, and it is made evident by the lyrics of the opening track of his new album, All Alone Again. While the track, “Honky Tonkin Ramblin’ Man”, may seem to be a simple lively honky tonk number on the surface, much more can be interpreted from Allcorn’s words. He knows what he likes: “songs about murder, drinkin, God, drugs, and jail”. He knows what he is: “just a hillbilly singer with a five-piece band”. And perhaps, most importantly, he knows what he is not: “the rebel front man of an outlaw band”.

"I'm not a rebel or an outlaw or anything like that," says Allcorn. " I just make the kind of country music that I like. I'm not trying to re-invent the wheel or do anything revolutionary, I just want to write songs and make records for people who enjoy authentic country music."

All Alone Again, is an authentic reflection of who Joey Allcorn is as a songwriter and as a performer. Instead of making an album with an “underground scene” in mind, he instead made the wise decision to make a record with himself in mind. The result is a cohesive, polished product that reflects not the artist that Allcorn wants to be, but the artist that he is. The album borrows heavily from tradition, but does so in an honest way that makes it accessible to today’s listeners that crave that timeless blend of authenticity, fiddle, and steel.

Perhaps Joey Allcorn’s greatest musical love is the country love song, and he can discuss cheatin’ hearts in the form of an upbeat toe-tapper or of a classic weeper. Plenty of both can be found on All Alone Again. On the upbeat side, there are songs like “Huntsville”, a sarcasm-laced send-off to lady-friend who has up and left him for another man. “The Next Time We Break Up”, a final warning to indecisive lover, could easily be mistaken for a lost Buck Owens song. Another kind of warning, the kind to a guy thinking about confessing his love to a girl, is stated in “Don’t Start Thinkin Like That”. And the Harlan Howard-esque “I’d Be Over You By Now” finds Allcorn in the middle of a classic “aw shucks” moment, knowing he should have exited a relationship long before it reached its unfortunate end.

It’s a good thing these upbeat songs are present on All Alone Again because Allcorn’s “crying time” numbers on this record are the best he’s ever penned. He summons his inner-Hank Williams to deliver the very clever “Just Another Song”, and displays a yodel that Jimmie Rodgers would be proud of on the album’s closing title track. Both deal with broken hearts and loneliness, but some tracks have an even darker aura. Death seems to lurk around every corner, especially on songs like “Six Feet Down”, which will remind listeners of the star-crossed lovers of Edgar Allan Poe’s timeless poem “Annabelle Lee”, and the eerie “Honky Tonk Hell”, in which a haunted juke box and "dead men singing" set the scene.

This makes sense, as Allcorn’s heroes are never far from his mind, and on All Alone Again, he recruited many of the musicians who recorded with his legendary heroes. Fiddle-master Hank Singer, who currently tours with George Jones, Lloyd Green, the most recorded pedal steel guitarist in history and bassist Dave Rowe from Johnny Cash's last touring band were brought on board, as was Drifting Cowboy steel-guitarist Don Helms. Helms passed away in August of 2008, and All Alone Again features some of his final recording sessions. Combine these legendary musicians with modern masters like Johnny Hiland, and Chris Scruggs, and you have just the right sonic mix for the authentic country brilliance that brings Allcorn’s musical vision to life.

As he sings in “Lonesome, Lovesick Man”, Joey Allcorn seems to understand he is living a predestined life. It could really be the theme song for not only the album, but for his own journey of self-discovery. He has been dressing in 1950sstyle western suits on stage for years, but finally on All Alone Again, he completely embraces his true identity as the lonesome, lovesick man he discusses in song. Sure it’s hard, but like he says in “Waitin’ By the Railroad Tracks”, “I ain’t complainin’ ‘cause that’s my life”. At 28 years young, it can be said that Joey Allcorn knows who he is as an artist, and he is intent on showing anyone that’ll take the time to listen. In an era when finding authentic music is like discovering a needle in a haystack, All Alone Again is an incredible breath of fresh air." - Jared Morningstar

1. Honky Tonkin' Ramblin' Man (2:19)
2. Lonesome, Lovesick Man (3:40)
3. Huntsville (2:54)
4. Just Another Song (3:34)
5. Have At It Darlin' (2:50)
6. The Next Time We Break Up (3:10)
7. Honky Tonk Hell (4:21)
8. I'd Be Over You By Now (2:39)
9. Don't Start Thinkin' Like That (2:59)
10. Six Feet Down (2:49)
11. Down In Lousianne (3:11)
12. Waitin' By The Railroad Tracks (4:28)
13. All Alone Again (3:13)



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Bob Wayne and The Outlaw Carnies - Driven by Demons (2008)

2008 - Driven By Demons


Track Listing:

1.   Driven By Demons
2.   Reptile
3.   Estacada
4.   Home
5.   One For The Lord
6.   Drug Runner
7.   Wired Up
8.   Gold
9.   Love Songs Suck
10. Final Walk
11. Workin' Man

Here is the most recent offering from Bob Wayne and The Outlaw Carnies.  Another instant classic. 

Check them out here

Drug Runner

Bob Wayne and The Outlaw Carnies - Blood to Dust

2005 - Blood to Dust

Track Listing:

1.  Road Bound
2.  Ghost Town
3.  27 Years
4.  La Diabla
5.  Bride
6.  My Only Friend
7.  Blood to Dust
8.  Five In The Mornin'
9.  Darkness
10. Work of the Devil
11. Cardboard Blues


Here's another great album by Bob Wayne and his crew of freaks.

Check him out here

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Bob Wayne and The Outlaw Carnies - 13 Truckin' Songs

13 Truckin' Songs

Bob Wayne and his Outlaw carnies have a revolving crew of entertainers. There have been many misfits thus far and there's sure to be many more. To date the carnival has staged Joe Buck, Andy Gibson, the fine gent who recorded the From blood to Dust album- yes folks he's a man of man talents, Trey Dalton, Donny Paycheck, Little Frenchy Girlpants, Pat Fuckin Brown of Tacoma, Martin O' Dirty, Charlie "His parents never gave him a last name", TAD "Bullfrog Mc Gee",Jimmy Finkley, Velvet Davis, Sammy "The Bearded Lady", and Shane " the Alchemist"and yes Dan Infectoid of the Me Infecto, Donny Herron or Tommy or whatever his name is, Sheltonian, JillJill, Billy 2nd place Cook, The Sound Junkie, my Uncle Buck, T-lex, Mr. Don Robertson, Maria the drummer, DOGBITE, Spanky Eddie and the third dude you know who you are, Chris Scruggs, Sarah Gwen, Jacob, Crumville Records, Everyone at Eagle creek, Adam Watters, ONI INK, and many more to come!

Track Listing: 

1.  Mack
2.  Mornin' Time
3.  Devil Son
4.  Showdown
5.  Chatterbox
6.  Left Behind
7.  Long Way Down
8.  The Laugh
9.  100K
10. Movin' Out
11. 1985
12. One For the Ladies
13. Neath the Stone


I don't know what the official release date was but this is good stuff. Cockroach Media are re-releasing this on vinyl this Spring.  Check out the new cover art by "Dirty Donny" :

Cockroach Media will also be releasing Bob Wayne's other albums "Blood to Dust" and "Driven by Demons"  this summer. 

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J.B Beverley and The Wayward Drifters - Watch America Roll By (2009)

 

2009 - Watch America Roll By

It’s a time-honored tradition: the life-on-the-road sophomore album. And with the title of Watch America Roll By, J.B. Beverley and the Wayward Drifters willingly stand by tradition on Album Number Two; fortunately, Beverley’s worldview is broader than that of his tour van. Guitarist Beverley (ex-Murder Junkies!) and the Drifters (banjo/dobro/mandolinist Dan Mazer and upright bassist Johnny Lawless) may be all over the literal map—hitting the highway on jaunty opener “Interstate Blues”, hanging out with a hobo on “Gonna Ride a Train”, and making like Reverend Horton Heat’s kid brother on “Drug Train”—but these peripatetic souls know exactly how they want to get wherever it is they’re going: with plenty of old-school fiddle-and-banjo-soaked honky tonk. Too, the band tosses out the requisite shout-outs to their country forebears Messrs Cash and Williams Sr. either explicitly, as on the title track, or implicitly (“They’ll Only Play My Music When I’m Dead”), as any respectful country band should. Of course, the band pulls off the highway long enough to flip the bird to some women who’ve done Beverley wrong—“I Don’t Give A Damn” (“I’d chop off every finger I got / If it keeps me safe from you”... though presumably he’s keeping one finger intact) and “Thank You For Giving Me The Blues”, before putting the rubber back on the road, cackling all the way. Thank goodness someone remembered that road trips are supposed to be fun. - review by Stephen Haag

Track Listing:

01.  Interstate Blues
02.  Watch America Roll By
03.  Walked Across Texas
04.  They'll Only Play My Music When I'm Dead
05.  Me and My Blues
06.  I Don't Give a Damn
07.  Thank You For Giving Me the Blues
08.  Gonna Ride A Train
09.  End Of The Road
10.  Drug Train
11.  Don't Need No One
12.  Favorite Waste Of Time

God Damn I love this album.  I have a feeling that Beverley and the gang will be around longer than many people think.  With the current "Traditional Country" revival that's going on right now, these guys are right up front with names like Dale Watson, Wayne Hancock, Hank III and etc. 

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Ray Wylie Hubbard - Dangerous Spirits

1997 release by the great RWH. This one is a little more country than blues (not a bad thing at all) and includes one of my all time favorite RWH songs "The Last Younger Son". If you're questioning whether or not you want to check this guy out then that song's a hell of a place to start, as well as "Last Train To Amsterdam", "The Ballad Of The Crimson Kings", etc...

"Hubbard may have written "Up Against the Wall Red-neck Mother," but the song couldn't be farther from the meaning of his music. He's lived much of his life on the road--touring steadily for some 25 years now--leading from the birth of progressive country in Dallas and Austin, to fitful honky tonk recordings, to his country folk masterpieces Loco Gringo's Lament and the recent, and perhaps best, Dangerous Spirits. Hubbard has a wind scratched voice and a disposition both philosophical and spiritual that celebrates the beauties that, as he sings in "Ballad of the Crimson Kings," "sparkle and fade away." Hubbard's lyrical vision is fierce and unflinching, encompassing the existential shock of Flannery O'Connor and the mystery of fellow Texas troubadour Townes Van Zandt." --Ray Francis Kasten

1. Dangerous Spirits
2. If Heaven Is Not A Place To Go
3. Without Love ( We're Just Wastin' Time)
4. Hey That's All Right
5. Last Train To Amsterdam
6. The Last Younger Son
7. Ressurrection
8. Crimson Dragon Tatoo
9. The Sun Also Rises
10. The Ballad Of The Crimson Kings
    

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Ray Wylie Hubbard - Delirium Tremolos

This is the 2005 release from the king of Texas cowboy/blues. Another mandatory addition to any outlaw country/southern rock collection...

"It seems strange that folks like Ray Wylie Hubbard once lived such wild lives but have been able to make solid comebacks later in life. Strange, because Hubbard, on Delirium Tremolos, sounds as good as he ever has. Better yet, the album has a nice, mellow country sound, and Hubbard has discarded, for the time being, his penchant for preachy, comic songs. It doesn't hurt that the album's been produced by Gurf Morlix, nor that he's joined by great harmony singers like Patty Griffin and Eliza Gilkyson. Hubbard's choice of songs are solid too, combining deep but real lyrics ("And the rock and roll gypsies are ridin' tonight/ On the carnival strips they'll stay") with good melodies and hooks. The first three songs, "The Beauty Way," "Rock and Roll Gypsies," and "Dallas After Midnight," are all keepers, and a beautiful start to a solid album. Other good songs include "This Mornin' I Am Born Again," a gospel-flavored hymn that even pagans should dig. Delirium Tremolos only runs 45 minutes, which means that Hubbard and Morlix resisted the temptation to fill the disc with less than satisfactory material. Roots fans and anyone who enjoys good songwriting will want to pick up a copy." ~ Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr.

1. The Beauty Way
   
2. Rock and Roll Gypsies
3. Dallas After Midnight
   
4. Torn in Two
   
5. Drivin' Wheel
   
6. This Mornin' I Am Born Again
7. Dust Of The Chase
   
8. Roll and I Tumble
   
9. Cooler-N-Hell
   
10. Choctaw Bingo

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Joey Allcorn - 50 Years Too Late (2006)

 

2006 - 50 Years Too Late

"I don't know where the music is going, but I know where it's been."

This is what Joey Allcorn claims in his song, "This Ain't Montgomery." While no one really knows where country music is going (except that most purists would agree it sure isn't headed in the right direction), his claim that he knows country's roots is no false statement. When one listens to an Allcorn song or goes to see one of his shows, those roots are not hard to hear or see. His music doesn't feature the loud rock guitars and drums of the southern fried bubble gum found on mainstream country radio, nor does he wear the usual tank top and blue jeans ensemble one would expect of today's country stars on stage. Steel guitar can still be heard in his songs, and he and his band take the stage in suits, ties, and western wear that the stars of the Grand Ole Opry would don in '40s and '50s. To put it bluntly, Allcorn has mastered two lost arts. He makes real country music, and puts on a real country show.- J. Morningstar www.RealCountryMusic.org

Track Listing:

1.  50 Years too Late
2.  I Just Don't Know
3.  Here I Go Again
4.  Son of a Ramblin' Man
5.  Tired of Being Blue
6.  Alabama Chain Gang
7.  So Say Goodbye
8.  Don't You Call on Me
9.  This Ain't Montgomery
10. Like I Never Will Again
11. In Nashville Tennessee
12. Graveyard Bound
13. The Execution


This outstanding album was sent in by my friend DEVILDOWNINGA.  Here's what he had to say about it:

"Check this guy out. Nobody I know of' has ever heard of him and I damn near defy you not to get goosebumps over the way his music will remind you of Hank Sr. and that whole time period. He's a young guy in his 30's but goddamn, I personally have never heard any other "modern day" country that does justice to the Country Gold days of the late 50's - 60's. He does. Play this when you're in the mood to hear Hank Sr. Nobody does it like this nowadays..."

A Superdome-sized thanks to you bro!  This album is GREAT.  Featuring Hank Williams III doing guest vocals on “This Ain’t Montgomery”, Lonesome Wyatt of Those Poor Bastards fame doing guest vocals on "Graveyard Bound", legendary country pianist Walter Cunningham, and a list of other musicicans  including  Donnie Herron of BR549 and Bob Dylan’s current touring band on fiddle, Andy Gibson of Hank Williams III’s Damn Band’s on steel guitar, and guitarist Johnny Hiland. 

Don't be stupid guys, getyousome

The Devil Makes Three - A Little Bit Faster and A Little Bit Worse (2006)

2006 - A Little Bit Faster and A Little Bit Worse

This was recorded over two nights playing at Don Quixote's in Felton, CA with guest fiddle player Chojo Jaques.

Track Listing:

 

1.  Black Irish
2.  Beneath the Piano
3.  Tow
4.  Shades
5.  Man Tap
6.  Uncle Harvey's Plane
7.  Robot
8.  Jug Band
9.  North Carolina
10. Bangor Mash
11. St. James

This is what held me over until I finally got to see TDM3 in 2009.  I normally am not a big fan of live recordings but this one is just outstanding. I know Cheeto and Devildowninga will love it, if they don't have it already.

getyousome

Lonesome Wyatt and Rachel Brooke - A Bitter Harvest (2009)

2009 - A Bitter Harvest

Track Listing:

1. This Painful Summer
2. Poor Desperate Fools
3. Scars
4. Someday I’ll Fall
5. Crippled Farms
6. Only the Booze
7. Darkness
8. Never Forget (These Nightmares Are Mine)
9. Empty House
10. Give Up And Die


Those Poor Bastards' singer Lonesome Wyatt teams up with Rachel Brooke for ten songs of woe and unrelenting despair.  This is more along the lines of the album Sabella that I posted a couple of days ago.  

Here's what SCM has to say about Rachel Brooke:

  “Like so many of us, Rachel Brooke was born in the wrong time. Her classic style, and her simple and poetic songs fit much more snugly in an oval picture frame of tarnished metal and smoky glass than on CMT or Clear Channel pop country. She might be from Michigan, but this girl must have been touched with the songs and sentiments of the southlands and the weary West at birth.
The Rachel Brooke brand of old school country soul is true, and doesn't even give a hint of fake, stereotyped molding to fit a style or genre that happens to be hip at the time. It flows out of her as true and vital as breath. In other words, this girl is the REAL DEAL!
Her songs have that capacity to take you somewhere you haven't been for many many years, or to take you somewhere you want to be: in the depths of drunkenness and depression, or back home where all was right. Then she feeds it all through the effects of a warped record or an fuzzy AM radio to erase any tinges left behind by this modern antiseptic world with its polished existence, because the songs are not meant for this modern world or the people who dwell in it. They are meant for YOU,..the wayward soul rambling down the Lost Highway."
-- savingcountrymusic.com


And here's what Mr. Wyatt has to say:

"Rachel's songs will reach down your throat and beat your poor dead heart black and blue. She's a thing of wonder to behold." -Lonesome Wyatt, Those Poor Bastards

I love this album.  Do yourself a favor and....

getyousome

The Devil Makes Three - Longjohns, Boots, and a Belt (2004)

2004 - Longjohns, Boots, And a Belt

On their second album the band's ragtime bounce is still intact, but country blues share the billing, all presented with a cleaner mix that shows just how impressive the band's instrumental chops are.


Track Listing:

1.   Never Learn
2.   North Carolina
3.   Man Tap
4.   Sweeping
5.   Bangor Mash
6.   Judgment Day
7.   Tow
8.   Black Irish
9.   Long Boots Johnson
10. River Deep

As promised, here is the second album by The Devil Makes Three.  If you haven't heard of them, be sure to check this one out.

Getyousome

Lonesome Wyatt and the Holy Spooks - Sabella (2001)

2001 - Sabella

Rare, early solo recordings by Lonesome Wyatt. Not as mean and desperate as Those Poor Bastards, but still better than a shovel to the back of the head.

Track Listing :

1.  Crows
2.  Macabre Holy Pleasure
3.  If You See Sabella
4.  Black Is the Color
5.  Rebecca
6.  A Horse Deceased
7.  The Ballerina's Twirl
8.  Jealous
9.  Covered In Straw
10. Shelter
11. A Lovely Coffin




Lonesome Wyatt of Those Poor Bastards fame, solo style. 

Getyousome

The Devil Makes Three - 2002 - S/T

2002 - The Devil Makes Three

Track Listing:

1. The Plank
2. Graveyard
3. Beneath The Piano
4. Ten Feet Tall
5. Shades
6. Old Number Seven
7. Chained To The Couch
8. To The Hilt
9. The Bullet
10.For My Family
11.Nobody's Dirty Business

Another classic right here. I absolutely LOVE this band.  This is raw, gritty and as real as it gets.

Getyousome.

Otis Gibbs - 2009 - Grandpa Walked a Picketline

Otis Gibbs is a man in search of an honest experience. Some people refer to him as a folk artist, but that is a simplistic way to describe a man who has planted over 7,000 trees, slept in hobo jungles, walked with nomadic shepherds in the Carpathian Mountains, been strip-searched by dirty cops in Detroit, and has an FBI file. Otis has played everywhere from labor rallies in Wisconsin, to anti-war protests in Texas, Austria and the Czech Republic, Feed & Seed Stores in the Midwestern U.S. and in countless, theaters, festivals, bars and living rooms. Much of his work concentrates on the world that is ignored by pop culture. Sometimes forgotten, obsolete or simply marginalized, it is a world that doesn’t fit into a twenty-second sound bite or a White House talking point. Otis has spent the last fifteen years traveling across America and abroad documenting this world, and has a story to share about each stop along the way.

2009 - Grandpa Walked a Picket Line

Track Listing:

1.   Caroline
2.   Everyday People
3.   Sometimes Angels
4.   To Anyone
5.   Beto Junction
6.   Preacher Steve
7.   Damn Me
8.   Aint Nothing Special
9.   Ghost of the Domplatz
10. Long Black Thunder
11. Honey Please
12. Bury Me on a Rainy Day

Keeping with my Alt/Outlaw Country obsession as of late, here is another must have album from 09.  Just give it a listen, this guy is amazing.

Preacher Steve