Cork 'n Bottle String Band - Volume II (2000)

Genre: Bluegrass
Origin: Ken's Bar & Grill, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Label: CBSB Records
File: 74 Mb (320kbps)

Lineup:
John Purnell - Banjo, Vocals
Kurt Kellesvig - Dobro
Dave Landau - Guitar Vocals
Greg Dierks - Mandolin, Vocals
Pat Logterman - Bass
Jim "Stringbean" Wright - Banjo, Vocals
Andy Moore - Guitar, Vocals
Bruce Brusoe - Fiddle

Tracklist:
1. Lady Esther 3:07
2. Shawano County Shuffle 2:46
3. When The Phone Don't Ring (It'll Be Me) 2:03
4. Dangerous Game 2:56
5. Lonesome Feeling 2:42
6. Stringbean Crossing The Rhine 2:16
7. Rabbit In A Log 2:37
8. The Camden Special 3:11
9. In Like A Lion 2:24
10. Gravelyard 3:32
11. Cutter's Kickdown 2:01
12. Whiskey Before Breakfast 1:46
13. Tom Dooley 1:55

Well, you guys are in for a real treat here. I used to live in Madison, Wisconsin and every Wednesday we would take a break from the punk rock action at Ocay's Corral and head down to Ken's Bar and Grill to get drunk and entertained by the amazing Cork 'n Bottle String Band. This band just flat out rules live and they didn't really put out many cds or anything so I was really lucky to score this cd which is probably gonna be the only thing you'll even be able to find by them so enjoy this.

Cork 'n Bottle String Band - Volume II

Boris the Sprinkler - Suck (1998)

Genre: Pop Punk, Punk & Roll
Lyrical Theme: fast food, comic books, classic punk rock, and kitschy Americana
Origin: Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA
Label: Go-Kart Records
File: 121 Mb (320kbps)

Lineup:
Paul #1 - Guitar, Vocals
Paul #2 - Drums
Tim #00 - Bass
Rev. Norb - Vocals, Keytar, Guitar, harmonica

Tracklist:
1. Do The Sprinkler 1:13
2. Statutory Rock 1:21
3. My Radio Is Telling Me To Kill (The Guys On My Radio) 2:45
4. Dirty Candy 1:39
5. Icky Shazam 1:36
6. Purple Vulcan Hot Rod 1:36
7. Rushin'/Russian Robot 1:49
8. Jonestown Judy 2:01
9. U.F.O. 2:13
10. (My Baby Put Me In The) Penalty Box 2:00
11. Your Stupid Pants 1:23
12. Baby I Got Gas 1:37
13. I'm Green 1:31
14. Sugar Machine 1:18
15. Got2Fuc2Day 1:35
16. The End :34
17. Could You Guys Record That CD One More Time, Please? 23:47
18. Undo The Sprinkler 4:16
Total Playing Time: 54:14

Amazing Ramones inspired pop punk from Green Bay's own legendary Boris the Sprinkler featuring the extraordinary talent of the ludicrous Reverend Norb.

Suck

Violent Femmes - Viva Wisconsin (1999)

Genre: Rock & Roll, Folk Punk
Origin: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Years Active: 1980-2009
Label: Beyond
Recording: The songs were recorded on a six-date acoustic concert tour of their home state of Wisconsin between October 25-31, 1998
File: 165 Mb (320kbps) Cd-Rip

Lineup:
Gordon Gano - Vocals, Guitar
Brian Ritchie - Bass, Vocals, shakuhachi, xylophone, soprano sax, harmonica, conch shell, theremin
Guy Hoffman - Drums, Vocals, bugle
Sigmund Snopek III - piano, oboe, flutes, bass clarinet
Ray Cribb - trombone, bass guitar
Mike Kock - Saxophone
Eric Markstrum - trombone
Shane Derstl - Trumpet
Producer - Dave Vartanian

Tracklist:
1. Prove My Love 2:54
2. I'm Nothing 2:28
3. Country Death Song 4:51
4. Blister In The Sun 2:32
5. Gimme The Car 5:45
6. Don't Talk About My Music 2:14
7. Confessions 7:33
8. Hallowed Ground 3:45
9. Life Is An Adventure 2:30
10. Old Mother Reagan :31
11. Ugly 2:55
12. Good Feeling 4:25
13. Dahmer Is Dead :53
14. American Music 4:03
15. Special 2:14
16. Sweet World Of Angels 5:18
17. Black Girls 4:31
18. Gone Daddy Gone 3:09
19. Add It Up 5:59
20. Kiss Off 4:31

Ok, here's one of my favorite live albums ever, this is the Violent Femmes in our home state of the land of cheese. These are all acoustic tracks and it seriously makes it that much better. The recording and production are pristine and the band is in top form. If you haven't thought about this band in years, now's your chance to relive some great memories, because most of the classics are here.
You were born too soon
I was born too late
But every time I look at that
Ugly lake it reminds me of me
It reminds me of me

Do you like American music
We like American music
I like American music baby

Viva Wisconsin

Boris the Sprinkler - 8 Testicled Pogo Machine (1994)

Genre: Pop Punk, Punk & Roll
Lyrical Theme: fast food, comic books, classic punk rock, and kitschy Americana
Origin: Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA
Label: Bulge Records
File: 90 Mb (320kbps)

Tracklist:
1. Intro (Drugs & Masturbation) 3:43
2. Get Outta My Life 2:12
3. Boulevard Bulldog 1:39
4. Hey Professor Flutesnoot 2:05
5. (She's Do) Disgusting 2:53
6. West Of The East 1:36
7. She's Got A Lighter 2:52
8. Anarchy Bob At The Mayo Clinic 1:13
9. The Way It Is 2:39
10. Side Two 0:43
11. Gimme Gimme Grape Juice 2:12
12. Hexagonal Blues 2:16
13. 1-3 2:10
14. Crop 0:58
15. It's My Style 1:36
16. All My Time 1:52
17. Drunk 1:31
18. Girls Like U 2:09
19. Solomon Grundy 2:01
20. Hail Potsylvania 0:27
21. Time Bomb Tom 1:35
Total Playing Time 40:22

Here's a great band from my kneck of the woods while I was growing up and I saw them live a couple time and they are just incredible. Fronted by the legendary Reverend Norb, Boris blasts through 21 original classics with Norb shouting out his spit-fire tongue twister vocals and diatribe. This is seriously a must for you and the late great Wesley Willis is heard introducing the band. AMAZING stuff.

8 Testicled Pogo Machine

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

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