19 July 2010

JOHNNY LOWEBOW PLAYS HiS...

Cathead Resonator Ghosplehand Lowebow

RiSiNG STAR FiFE AND DRUM BAND W/Special Guests! ~ Shimmy She Wobble @ NMHCP 2010

Led by Sharde Thomas on the fife, The Rising Star Fife & Drum Band performs "Shimmy She Wobble" with Ricky Davis of Blue Mother Tupelo on guitar, Cody Dickinson of the North Mississippi Allstars and Hill Country Review on drums, and Luther Dickinson of the North Mississippi Allstars and the Black Crowes on bass. This song was recorded at the 5th annual North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic, a two-day event which takes place in Potts Camp, MS.

The North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic is hosted by Kenny Brown who played guitar with the late blues legend, R. L. Burnside. The event is patterned after an annual event held for decades by the late Otha Turner of Gravel Springs, MS who is Sharde Thomas' grandfather. Ms. Thomas learned to play the fife from Mr. Turner. The Otha Turner family picnic (sometimes called the Goat Roast because goat sandwiches are served) is still held in Gravel Springs, MS each year on the last weekend in August.




Shot by MAX SHORES!

17 July 2010

TEN FOOT POLE CATS

Massachusetts' everlovin' Ten Foot Polecats have released their first proper album entitled I Get Blamed For Everything (Hillgrass Bluebilly Records). This follows their excellent EP Sterno Soup which came as a nice dirty surprise outta nowhere. No surprises here other than TFP is a couple years harder, several thousand miles tighter, and countless gigs wickeder. A lot of bands that play blues are content to play the same ol' warhorse covers that have been beaten to death to the point they give off a stink that makes me sick. Ten Foot Polecats is a blues band that kicks the crap out of the original and gives it a new lease on life so that if your band wants to cover, say, T-Model Ford's Chickenhead Man it's TFP's version yr gonna need to contend with. But unlike a lot of other bands out there that claim to play blues TFP's originals stand just as tall and worthy as their covers. This is a band that has done it's homework at the College of Musical Knowledge but don't let that get in their way of laying down their own thing. You'll hear the Wolf prowlin' CCR's swamp and R.L. Burnside shakin' it with early seventies J.Geils Band. But all that good sexy mess is run down Ten Foot Polecats-style. TFP bring new life to three-piece blues. This ain't no toothless panama hat blues. Ten Foot Polecats bring the vibe, the groove, the mystery, and the balls that blues music must have to carry on to the coming generations. Another fine and powerful recording by one of the best blues bands out there. Hail.

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From I Get Blamed For Everything ---> BUY!
Chickenhead Man MP3
Dryspell MP3
Couple More Miles MP3

From the Sterno Soup ep ---> BUY!
Work Me MP3
Thought I Heard MP3



14 July 2010

DEViN MiLLER ~ I AiNT THE ONE (Hotel Garbage Can Demo)



Yr pal Devin Miller sent me this little demo. 
I thought it was great but about seven minutes too short.
Listen

12 July 2010

SCOTT H BiRAM ~ Live From Sugarhill Studios

Scott sez ::
Here's a short live acoustic set I did a few months back. This was shot for an in-studio video series at the Legendary SugarHill Recording Studios in Houston, TX. I played a couple new songs that I had only started to write 2 days before. They've already evolved since...

(Don't be scared by the thumbnail on the video.
 It's a dude from NoBunny. Not Mr.Biram)

11 July 2010

BiSHOP DREADY MANNiNG & FAMiLY

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XO to Mary Anne Mclaurin-Norwood