Maybe, if it weren’t for their unfortunate band name this group would be a bit more famous than they are. And they are not very famous, but they are whole lot of fun. Their latest record, Kick Out The Twang, features everything you would want in a honky tonk Rock and Roll band. Foot-stomping tunes about drinking, heartache, and failure just like Hank, Johnny Cash, Willie, and Joe Ely would sing about. The sound is a bit ramshackle at times in all the best of ways. Think Bottle Rockets and Commander Cody here.
Category: Indie Rock
Video of the Day: John Prine – Knockin’ On Your Screen Door
For his latest record, The Tree of Forgiveness, John Prine locked himself in a room at the Omni hotel in Nashville with dozens of notebooks, scraps of paper, and other bits and pieces of songs he had laying around the house and completed the tunes that ended up to be on the album. The result was a tremendous album with songwriting on par with his best work. The video shows John hanging out with some musician friends as he bounces around Nashville having fun just being John Prine.
Video of the Day: The Nude Party – Chevrolet Van
Hailing from Boone, North Carolina The Nude Party is a Psych/Garage Rock band that is what the replacements could have been if they hadn’t taken themselves so seriously. The new self-titled record is destined to be on many of the year-end best of lists.
Rock Is The New Roll 