Dax Riggs - Unknown Album

 

Here's a bunch of "rare" songs by one of my favorite vocalists of all time, Dax Riggs.  I'm sure these songs have been spread all over the internet like the plague over the years, but fuck it!  i haven't posted it here yet so, here goes! Photo by J. Bennett

Track Listing:

1.  A Spinning Song
2.  Black Crayon
3.  Blood Music
4.  Filling Empty Holes
5.  Filling Empty Holes (1?)
6.  Fly on the Eye of LA
7.  Fly on the Eye of LA (1?)
8.  Grand Dark Feeling of Em
9.  Heart in Hand
10. How Long the Night Was
11. In Death I'm Only Hiding
12. Intro
13. Kissed By Lightning
14. Soul of a Beer Can
15. Stop I'm Already Dead
16. Stranger to Reason
17. Thing In a Jar
18. Thing In a Jar Mess-up
19. Tomorrow We Jump

Yeayourite

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.

A little more Country Music for ya! Say hello to Hayes Carll

If you haven’t already heard of Hayes Carll, you soon will. In the three years since his self-released second album, 'Little Rock' became available, Carll has toured relentlessly, founded a successful music festival in Texas, secured a record deal and has reached #1 on the Americana Music Chart. He’s only getting started.
On his new album, Trouble In Mind, the 32 year-old Carll navigates his way through both stormy weather and calm, sun-drenched waters with ease, emerging with songs that melt even the hardest heart in town or heat up a roadhouse. Their impact is heightened by the fact that they're songs born of both immersion in the works of his songwriting heroes and plenty of real world experience.
"Here's a guy who takes regular old rockin' Texas folk country and just adds new songs to the canon" -Houston Press

Hayes Carll delivers songs born of baptism-by-fire experience, world weary observations and sharp wit. While his songs draw from Texas songwriting heroes such as Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, Carll has managed to put a stamp on his music that is truly his own.

As a performer, Carll’s clever anecdotes, genuine sincerity and self-deprecating humor invites listeners in to his world. His confidence and charisma are second only to the quality of his songwriting. Audiences relate to his songs because he sings to them as friends, immediately breaking down any barrier that might normally exist between the stage and audience.

In May of 2009, Hayes Carll's Stingaree Music Festival celebrated the return of the Bolivar Peninsula. The area, still recovering from the devastating results of a direct hit from hurricane Ike, also welcomed the return of a hometown hero. To thank the Peninsula for their continued support, all profits from the festival were donated to the Bolivar Peninsula Economic Relief fund.

After releasing two albums independently, Flowers And Liquor and the acclaimed sophomore record Little Rock, singer/songwriter Hayes Carll found a home at Lost Highway.

On April 8, 2008, his debut for Lost Highway, Trouble In Mind, was released. The album showcased a collection of songs that blend some of the finest elements of folk, country and rock with brainy, quirky lyrics. Since the release of Trouble In Mind, Carll has toured non-stop, both with and without his band. Along the way he’s made many friends and fans who truly appreciate his craft, humor, attitude, opinions and even his compassion.

In September of 2008, Carll won SONG OF THE YEAR at the 7th Annual Americana Music Association Honors & Awards for his satirical “She Left Me For Jesus". He also received a nomination for ARTIST OF THE YEAR. In December of 2008, Hayes Carll appeared and performed on Imus In The Morning where Don Imus called “She Left Me For Jesus” the “greatest country song ever.”

As a result of Carll’s patience and hard work, Trouble In Mind was the #1 R&R Americana Album of 2008. It also received recognition from Amazon, being awarded the #1 Country album and #9 Overall album for 2008.
Trouble In Mind has received consistently high-praise in the press, including glorious reviews on three different NPR programs (All Things Considered, Fresh Air and The Bryant Park Project). Here’s what some others have had to say:

"He has a voice as tough and relentless as a late-night Lone Star brawl and a lyric sensibility worthy of an M.F.A. creative-writing seminar." -The New Yorker.com

“Hayes Carll is the traveling Texas troubadour for today's X Generation… He's the snarky slacker with a heart of pure Kerouac. He's a modern storyteller's dream, wrapped in a cloak of country-folk charm.” -Tulsa World

“Hayes Carll is an inheritor of the Texas songwriting tradition that includes Townes Van Zandt and Steve Earle. He’s highly romantic and highly literary – and, sometimes, it seems, just plain high. But he lives up to his lofty antecedents – singing in a drawl that’s as sexy as it is smart, and writing songs that are as charmingly self-deprecating as they are self-mythologizing.” -Anthony DeCurtis,

***1/2 (out of 4) –USA Today ***1/2 (out of 4) –People **** -MOJO

“The creator of one of the year’s best country albums thus far….”

Grade A -Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly

“…a familiar Type-A mush mouthed drawler who’s smarter about the beat than his shambling ways would make your think and funnier than shit when he wants to be, which is often.” **** -Robert Christgau, Blender

“…his songs are full of hard-drinking, hard-loving, hard-luck characters. But he’s no stumblebum in his songwriting.” -Jon Pareles, New York Times

2002 - Flowers and Liqour

Track Listing:

1. Highway 87
2. Heaven Above
3. Naked Checkers
4. Arkansas Blues
5. It's A Shame
6. Live Free Or Die
7. Easy Come Easy Go
8. Flowers And Liquor
9. Richey Lee
10. Perfect Lover
11. Lost And Lonely
12. Barroom Lament  

I can't deny my country roots, being raised in the south you hear a LOT of country music.  The only problem is... most of it SUCKS!!  I can assure you that Hayes Carll does not.  Check it out for yourself...
Naked Checkers eh?

2005 - Little Rock

Track Listing:

1. Wish I Hadn't Stayed So Long  
2. Take Me Away  
3. Down The Road Tonight  
4. Good Friends
5. Hey Baby Where You Been
6. Rivertown
7. Little Rock
8. Leave Here Standing
9. Sit In With The Band
10. Long Way Home
11. Chickens  

 Here is Hayes's second album, you can definitely hear the progression in his witty songwriting skills.

Where's  the chickens!

2008 - Trouble In Mind

Track Listing:

1.   Drunken Poet's Dream

2.   It's a Shame

3.   Girl Downtown

4.   Bad Liver and a Broken Heart

5.   Beaumont

6.   I Got a Gig

7.   Faulkner Street

8.   Wild as a Turkey

9.   Don't Let Me Fall

10. A Lover Like You

11. I Don't Wanna Grow Up

12. Knockin' Over Whiskeys

13. Willing to Love Again
14. She Left Me for Jesus

Here is Carll's most recent album. I have to say, this guy rocks. Songs like "Drunken Poets' Dream", "Wild as a Turkey", and "She Left Me for Jesus" are sooo damn good. Find out for yourselves, check him out.
She left me for who?


Big thanks to my southern podna Devildowninga for keeping me on the country music kick all morning while I was at work.   If you happened to see my last fm charts for the day you'll know what I mean. lol

Enjoy!

The Devil Makes Three - 2009 - Do Wrong Right

2009 - Do Wrong Right

Lineup

Pete - Slide and regular old guitar, tenor banjo, harmonica
Cooper - Guitar, tenor banjo, five-string banjo, musical saw
Lucia - Upright Bass

Influences

The Reverend Gary Davis, Dave Van Ronk, Django Reinhardt, Steve Earle, Doc Watson, Iron Maiden, Bling Willie McTell, Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fulller, Blind Lemon Jefferson, A few other blind guys too, Skip James, Elmore James, Etta James, Some Guy named Jim, Lightning Hopkins, Bill Monroe, Roy Bookbinder, The Jim Kweskin Jug Band, Cannons Jug Stompers, The Memphis Jug Band, AC/DC, Dr. Dre, George Gritzbach, Scott Joplin, and Plenty More. - taken from their Myspace

Track Listing:

1. All Hail
2. Do Wrong Wright
3. Gracefully Facedown
4. For Good Again
5. Statesboro Blues
6. Johnson Family
7. Poison Trees
8. Help Yourself
9. Working Man's Blues
10. Aces and Twos
11. Cheap Reward
12. Car Wreck

Let me start by saying that this is definitely one of my top five albums of 2009.  I listen to this album at LEAST once a week, along with their previous releases of course. The album opener "All Hail"  is one of the best damn songs ever written, period. That can also be said about the remaining 11 tracks. And I can definitely relate to the words of "Gracefully Facedown", you know, being from New Orleans and all.  Seriously, if you have never heard these guys you are missing out.  I was also lucky enough to catch them when they passed through NOLA at One Eyed Jack's and they were even better live.  If you like traditional country music or any of the modern day outlaw/alt country acts then you must give these guys (and girl) a chance.  

Well I'm having  a hard time, walkin' a straight line....

Honest Bob And The Factory-To-Dealer Incentives - Second & Eighteen (2005)

Year: 2005
Genre: Indie
Label: Independent

Lineup-
Dan Schmidt - Lead Vocals, Guitars
Chris Rigopulos - Vocals, Lead Guitars
Greg Huang - Vocals, Bass

Bill Foster - Vocals, Drums
Tracklisting:
1. Hey – 2:47
2. Time Cube – 3:30
3. Leopold – 2:42
4. Without You – 2:41
5. Don't Look Right – 2:33
6. Red Integra – 3:54
7. I Will Deny – 1:44
8. Wake Up – 2:26
9. You Broke My Brain – 3:49
10. I Don't Want To Hear About Your Crappy Boyfriend – 2:06

11. Pollard Saves The Day - 2:26

12. I Don't Say Anything - 3:19

13. Country Mo-Fo - 2:40

14. The Benefits Of Language - 1:37

15. I Push Her Buttons - 3:11

16. I Get By - 4:18

17. Tatooine - 3:12

18. Head Like A Hole (Nine Inch Nails Cover) - 3:55

Honest Bob And The Factory-to-Dealer Incentives is an eclectic gruop that plays nerdie indie about everyday life, Star Wars, girls, cults, and the almighty Time Cube. The songs range from fast and happy to slow acoustic songs, and they're all weird. Like, that roommate you never talked to in college tthat moved away to a suburb in Wisconsin after two weeks and then became a deistic Satanists and commited suicide in a candlelit attic weird. Or not.

I fart in your general direction

Ben Nichols - 2009 - The Last Pale Light in the West

The sparse, dark, and aggressive alt-country, bluegrass, and southern rock ballads of The Last Pale Light in the West are guttural poems set to knee slapping fireside guitar riffs. The 7-song CD is a short, but impressive, solo debut for Lucero lead singer Ben Nichols. It is reminiscent of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 classic Nebraska. A stark recording, the only instruments on The Last Pale Light in the West are guitars, an accordion, a piano, and Nichol’s gruff, engaging voice.
The recording is a soft piece with grim themes. The guitars lead everything, while the pianos and accordions haunt the stories Nichols tells. All the songs are written by Nichols and based on the 1985 Cormac McCarthy novel Blood Meridian: or the Evening Redness in the West. McCarthy’s Meridian is considered by many to be a modern America classic of literature, a gritty western novel about a teenage runaway “the kid,” who joins a gang of scalp hunters who massacre Indians on the U.S.-Mexico border in the 1800s. The story is based on actual events and has been praised for it’s nightmarish beauty and magnificent language. As Nichols translates the novel into brief songs he displays his gift for crafting a story and delivering intricate emotions and settings through brief phrases.
Only one song on The Last Pale Light in the West is longer than five minutes, and the closing song is an instrumental tune. Nichols begins the album with the title song, which sets the theme for the album, telling the story of a remorseless character who is bound to go west. The second song is “The Kid” – a rolling biography of The Kid – a tune that tells of a forgotten child who meets up with the devil.
The lyrics throughout the album work in many of the characters and places from Blood Meridian, and Nichols powerfully sorrowful voice shines through crisply — thanks to engineering by Doug Easley — overtop the soft, or possibly barren and dead with a harsh blood-tinged wind blowing, musical landscape that Nichols and his two partners (Rick Steff on accordian and piano, and Todd Beene on guitar) produce.

Nichols’ minimal lyrics illustrate the bleak musical layout: “Don’t believe in Hell / But he figures somehow / Even if it’s real / It’s gonna spit him back out”; “I done some preachin’ back in Texas before the war / Now I hunt heathens ‘cause it pays better than the Lord / I ride with Demons / The Devil at my side / Be it us or the heathens, we must all pay a heavy price”; “They took my ears in Omaha / Thought me dead but I weren’t at all / Left them bleeding in the mud / Branded me for horse thievery / Between my eyes for all to see / Left them bleeding in the mud / When this world was made / Was never meant to save / Everyone in kind / And I don’t believe / God much had me / Had me much in mind”. His phrasing delivers coldness and despair with pinpoint accuracy.
The Last Pale Light in the West is a gorgeous black and white photo of a homeless man on a cold New York street. Neon lights are around the corner, but the dark alley is the only way to get there, and there is no guarantee that the neon lights will save anybody. Going down the alley is a scary prospect, but there may be no way to stop your momentum, so you sharpen your teeth and challenge the shadows to a duel.
- review by Mike Hammer located HERE 

2009 - The Last Pale Light in the West

Track Listing:

1. The Last Pale Light in the West
2. The Kid
3. Davy Brown
4. Chambers
5. Tobin
6. Toadvine
7. The Judge

This is essential!! Big thanks to Devildowninga for sending this one!

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