Brother Biram is back!

Three years have passed since Scott H Biram's Graveyard Shift was released and a lot has changed. For Scott and for the countries he endlessly tours with his '59 Gibson. The economy has gone to hell. Folks are losing their jobs and homes. The highs and lows have been heavy for Biram as well. Love lost. Demons bitin' his ass. Leg busted in a fall at a gas station in the south of France. But he's survived it as he always does, with his black metal country gospel soul intact, and Brother Biram is back bigger, better and stronger than ever. It shows in the incredible power of his live shows but even more so in his new release Something's Wrong/Lost Forever. Biram has really taken a step forward with this release. In production, recorded wholly by Scott in his own studio, and in musical variety and melodic depth. It's still completely your unfriendly neighborhood Scott H Biram album but he's dug in that much deeper and rubbed and chafed himself that much rawer. Scott Biram brings his style of own country blues to the stump with his arms raised high as always but this time out he's assisted on three key tracks by his friends (and your'n) Van Campbell and Reverend John Wesley Myers of The Black Diamond Heavies adding just that much more soul, creed, and pure joy that raises Scott that much higher (and that much lower as needed). Scott Biram has taken some chances here, as he always does. Biram never takes the easy route on album or live. But those chances have payed off in his deliverance (in more ways than one) of the strongest and most powerful album of his career .

Scott H Biram WebSite, MySpace , FaceBook

I've uploaded these tracks at a lower bitrate than usual because there are certain artists that I believe deserve our hard earned cash and Scott Biram is one of 'em. You can buy Something's Wrong/ Lost Forever for cheap (CD or LTD.Ed Vinyl!) from Bloodshot Records or even cheaper mp3s (which don't sound as good as the CD let alone the vinyl ya tin ear) from iTunes.

Scott H Biram - Wild Side -
Scott H Biram - Ain't It A Shame -

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The JiM JONES REVUE - The Princess and The Frog MP3

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The Late Great Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes & The Playboys

Booba Barnes did of lung cancer in 1996. His first and only album was released in 1990. That album is long out of print but is available for cheap at the usual online spots. You'll also find a single recorded in 1988 that has a song not on the album. Mr. Barnes also makes a memorable appearence in the landmark 1990 documentary Deep Blues. Some will be interested to know that T-Model Ford appears on the albums track #4.

"You just think of somethin' and put it in there.
I'm a bad man. It'll be true."

"I'm going to live as long as I can and die when I can't help it."

"A lot of times, I look over the crowd and if it look like I just touch somebody...I stay on it awhile. Sometimes I get touched by it myself."
-Booba Barnes
9.25.36-3.3.96

How Long This Must Go On - MP3
Heartbroken Man - MP3
Blind Man/ I pity The Fool - MP3

Inside Junior Kimbrough's Juke Joint 1997

Leslie and I visited Junior's in 1997. R.L. Burnside played and later he and Leslie danced. Before we left I spoke to Kinney Kimbrough and asked if I could shoot some video (you'll see Leslie and Kinney talking at the start of the video). He said "Yeah man! If i'd known you had a camera you could have been recording all night." Well, damn. Oh well. So here, for my friends who never had the chance to go, is a couple minutes that'll show you the inside of the late Junior Kimbrough's juke joint. Junior passed on in 1998. The juke was burned to the ground in 2000.

Inside Junior Kimbrough's Juke Joint 1997 from ricksaunders on Vimeo.