Blog: The Tripwire

[Photo by Cambria Harkey] The Heartless Bastards have announced the release of The Mountain via Fat Possum on February 3 of next year, and it has been described to us as a "killer record with bourbon-soaked grit that's hypnotic like hill-country blues," and that main bastard Erika Wennerstrom, "rocks like Patti Smith fronting Crazy Horse or John Lee Hooker as a girl." But we're still skeptical that it can sound nearly as gritty or bourbon-soaked as this acoustic version of the single "Searching For The Ghost". In fact, this version of their [...]

• HB - searching for the ghost - acoustic