Sure, plenty of shows come to town and there are plenty of reasons to be excited about each and every one of them. But, unlike people, all shows are not created equal. Some, such as the Black Diamond Heavies show last month, are just more worthy of your unbridled enthusiasm. Scott H. Biram falls into that category. When Scott comes to your town you need to lock up the womenfolk, drink a few whiskey shots and get your ass to the show. I think my card carrying status in Scott's Church of the Ultimate Fanaticism Fan Club is well documented [...]
It's been a few months since I wrote about the monthly compilations we put together over on the Lucero message board but that doesn't mean we haven't been doing them. As always, you can head over to the Lucero message board for some dialog on why each song was submitted and while you're there you can contribute to next months. This month's comp is worth the download just to get the Drive By Truckers cover of Burning For You. Here is the tracklisting: The Who - Real [...]
I'll be honest. I'm not really too into tribute albums. I mean, they usually have their high points but when you take them as a whole they tend to feel mailed in or uninspired. Such is not the case with this particular tribute album, and while I am sure there have been no shortage of tribute albums to Hank Sr. or Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter, I am sure there hasn't ever been one quite like this. For one, check out the take no prisoner's, my way or fuck you contributing artists. With acts like Scott H. Biram, [...]
I found a review for the South Park Music Festival that I wrote back in '06 before I had the music Blog, and I figured to prepare for my posting more about the Monolith Music Festival, I'd post it. I don't know if you knew this, but the Monolith Music Festival is run by one of the guys who ran the South Park Music Festival , so without the SPMF , Monolith wouldn't be around (though it seems as though another new Festival, the Fresh Track Music Fest , also [...]
Here's a lil' something I put together back on Easter morning of '05. CHiCKEN! from ricksaunders on Vimeo .
Mr. Biram presented a new country song at Deep Blues Festival called Still Drunk, Still Crazy. Still Blue. Video shot by Ms.Heidi Kellner . yr Cuzn Wildweed has a slightly edited version HERE .
Scott H. Biram : Raisin' Hell Again [ purchase ] Scott H. Biram : Long Fingernail [ purchase ] Over on ninebullets.net we never ever ever pass on an opportunity to preach the gospel of Scott Hiram Biram and Hell Week on Star Maker Machine seems as good a place as any to set up a pulpit and preach to you dirty bastards. So here goes: Rock 'n' Roll ain't [...]
Scott H. Biram calls himself a "Dirty Old One Man Band," but what does that even mean these days? Yes, he's got a rousing, quasi-religious revival take on hillbilly punk, but dirty? Seriously, most pop songs these days are far...
We are (if I may say so myself) a pretty awesome collection of people over on the Lucero message board . No drama, no flame wars and real conversations…a message board anamoly to be sure. Well, each month we all submit tracks and one kind soul arranges it all and puts the comp up for all of us to download. Don't let this month's cover art fool you, it has all the Irish drinking music and what not that one would expect from a March compilation cd. You can download the entire compilation here . There is a [...]
Imagine spending the better part of a year planning. Shelling out tons of money over said year. All to bring the best of the punkass-blues scene together for a weekend somewhere in Wisconsin. Only to have record rains show up; on your weekend . Attendance falls well below what you expected and you lose a lot of your own money. What do you do? Chris Johnson will tell you- you make that muthafucker even bigger the next year...and that's just what he's done...2 days become 3 and the Deep Blues Festival of 2007 blossoms into the [...]
I don't know many truck drivers. Hell, I don't know ANY truck drivers but if all the stereotypes are to be believed, Scott H. Biram may be the prototypical truck-driving country-rock hillbilly with a need for speed ... speed metal, that is. His 2006 release, Graveyard Shift , isn't really an alt.country-metal album the way, say, some of the stuff that Hank III puts out is, but you can tell that Biram's the type of dude whose got an armful of tattoos that he shouldn't be showing in church or to his momma. [...]
My recent obsession with hand claps doesn't look like it has faded much, so here's another handful of songs to celebrate it. Included are brand new tracks from Beck, Bent, Black Lips and Blockhead. Kris Ellestad and Shout Out Out Out Out supply some claps all the way from Canada, while the local "one man band" Scott H. Biram brings it on home. Kris Ellestad - "The Secret" ( más ) Black Lips - "Veni Vidi Vici" ( más ) [...]
Scott H. Biram was delivered to us from a honky-tonk somewhere in hell. A friend of mine from Austin recommended the "Dirty Old One Man Band" to me years ago and his sound stopped me in my tracks. I still haven't seen him live, but I'm pretty sure the guy is crazy as a shithouse rat. If you haven't read Biram's bio, you should visit Bloodshot Records and check it out. He was once hit head on by an 18 wheeler and won the battle. His sound kind of sounds like a car crash, [...]
Second part of SXSW 2007 punk list. This one has fare more gothic metal feel to it. Not my usual flavor, but the dark gothic is really pleasant, in romantic sort of way. (Femur and Los Llamarada) I hope you enjoy this rather long punk list. I don't mind using this for drinking soundtrack. " SXSW 2007. Shiny Punk with Late Night Sweet " 01. El Jesus de Magico : New Moses (Columbus, OH) 02. Carbonas : Phone Booth (Atlanta, GA) 03. CPC Gangbangs [...]
Scott Biram is one of my Top 3 favorites. It goes: Lucero , Drive-By Truckers , Scott Hiram Biram . Sott will be playing The Orpheum Sunday night and you can come drink whiskey with me and see Scott for a mere 8 dollars. 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 dour ass singer/songwriter either, sweetly strumming songs about [...]
Well, I am back home. Trying to get back into the rut. Colorado was awesome...we got over a foot of snow while we were out there and come home relatively unscathed. The wife broke her toe which ended her snowboarding 3 days in but that was the only injury. While I was out there I spent a lot of time listening to the recently leaked Clutch and RJD2 albums. Later this week or next I plan to write about them. FTR though, they are both wonderful albums. So, in the coming days things will get back to normal...the day job [...]
Today we finish up the sample songs off my favorite albums of the year. My top two are perhaps the least well-known releases on this list, but don't think that I upped their placement just to have an unconventional top pick. I actually feel that these two albums are the best I've heard this year, surpassing the better-known and more-respected musicians who are below them on the list or not
I'm going to change the blog's focus for a little while. Partly to avoid Good Hodgkins syndrome and partly because if something is the best of 2006, it deserves a little more time than three paragraphs, and partly because I'm a writer, and I need to write about different stuff sometimes. So instead of having a wide, enormous focus like I've had since June (and will have again), I'm going to focus the rest of the year on the ... best of the year. Hopefully it will turn out all right. [...]
Dirty trucker. Mother trucker. Where the truck have I been? I'm back, and as a gift, I'm going to revisit a familiar Mountain theme and obsession to make it up to all y'all. We love us some good tasty truckin' music, we sure do, and we've already ranted ad nauseum on the topic already. So kick back for a bandwidth-busting half a cd mix of rubber burning, white line chasing, diesel
Nine Bullets
Someone to Love More Than Music
Rick Saunders Breaks His Silence
Star Maker Machine
OregonLive.com: Pop Music
Atomic Ned
Covert Curiosity
HearYa: An Indie Music Blog
Bricolage Fantasy
Postmodern Sounds in Country and Western Music
Bon Ton
bigrockcandymountain
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Sleeve: “1991″ by Azealia Banks
Tango In the Attic: "Sellotape"
