photo: Felicia Graham Heartless Bastards ' singer Erika Wennerstrom started a side project called Swet Tea with Alex Maas of The Black Angels . They performed the Cash/Carter calssic If I Were A Carpenter at the Austin City Limits TV Show earlier this year. The recording is now offered as free download. Fat Possum will release the first Sweet Tea single digitally later in July, comprising the studio version of If I Were A Carpenter , and the Ray [...]
The fact that "If I Were a Carpenter," the first single released by Sweet Tea, a collaboration started by Erica Wennestrom of Heartless Bastards and Alex Maas of The Black Angles, sounds like The Velvet Underground goes country is by no means a knock on either of these two talents. In fact, I could think of many ways a side project combining the dark, probing psychedelic rock of The Black Angels and the rustic, rugged rock of Heartless Bastards could go horribly wrong. Taking a song made famous by June Carter and Johnny Cash and adding pedal steel, [...]
Fat Possum recording artists Heartless Bastards ave been on tour with Jenny Lewis over the past couple weeks, but will soon be joining on with the Decemberists. Check out the full list of tour dates for the band below as well as an MP3 of their take on the classic June Carter and Johnny Cash duet "If I Were A Carpenter." MP3: Heartless Bastards - "If I Were a Carpenter" Heartless Bastard tour dates: Dates marked + w/ The Decemberists 7.07.09 Fayetteville, AK - George's Majestic Lounge [...]
Erika Wennerstrom and her Heartless Bastards are raring up to take over the US and Canada this summer with a plethora of festival dates (ACL, All Points West, and Lollapolooza to name a few), and as openers (The Avett Brothers, Jenny Lewis, and The Decemberists). Heartless Bastards Summer '09 Tour Dates : 6.22.09 Austin, TX - Stubb's Outside w/ Jenny Lewis 6.23.09 Dallas, TX - Granada Theater w/ Jenny Lewis 6.24.09 Houston, TX - Warehouse Live w/ Jenny Lewis 6.26.09 New Orleans, LA - House of Blues w/ Jenny Lewis 6.27.09 Mobile, AL - [...]
Sweet Tea is a a side project formed between Alex Maas of the Black Angels and Erika Wennerstrom from the Heartless Bastards . They recorded a couple of songs together which are being released on Fat Possum as a limited edition single - Side A is a cover of the classic Tim Hardin song; the B-side is a Ray Price cover of "Crazy Arms." Here's Alex and Erika doing their take on Johnny and June Carter. If I Were [...]
Sweet Tea (Black Angels, Heartless Bastards) give away free song Sweet Tea , a side project formed by friends Alex Maas ( Black Angels ) and Erika Wennerstrom ( Heartless Bastards ) in early 2009, has a free download of their cover of " If I Were a Carpenter " available for this week only. Get it here or on either band's myspace. The track, along with another country cover " Crazy Arms ", will be released on iTunes mid-July. Fat Possum is pressing a limited [...]
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