CROSSCUT SORES & MARCO BUTCHER - I Hate The Way You Sing The Blues

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Crosscut Sores (ex-Jooks of Kent) & the great Marco Butcher (Chicken Snake, Jam Messengers) just laid down a thick ingot of grindy gooey stickum that is awfully fresh and delightfully neu-abrasive. A rusty, lead-filled gauntlet has been slo-tossed thru our cellar window. Embroidered on the thin cracked thick leather wrist writ large in a golden thread it reads "I Hate The Way You Sing The Blues."

THE JOOKS OF KENT: The Righteous Return of the Raw Boogie! (originally posted 02/03/08)

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If nothing else The Jooks of Kent have succeeded in making what is perhaps the loudest album I have ever heard in my life. Like yr Sooper Chikan humpin' on the leg of Bob Log III.

The Jooks are a mean, jankety little three piece made up out of Chris Simmonds on mouth harp, Scarlett Rickard on drums, washboard and whathaveyou, plus Guitar/vocals by Tim Ray Rogers. They've opened for such punkass blues luminaries as Mr.Scott H Biram and Seasick Steve and are regulars on the Not The Same Old Blues Crap circuit. They also run their own lil' PUNK BLUES TRASH ROCK'N'ROLL night out in Folkestone on the coast of Kent.

But y'all don't care about Folkestone. Y'all just want to know what the album sounds like. Fine. Fine! It's a blind drunk stolen car spree, it's a phone call from your wife's ex-husband...from prison, it's the sound of the sidepipes on the neighbor's '73 Firebird, it's the AM car radio volume knob shoved all the way 'round til it snaps itself off and jumps out the wing vents. it's a brodie spinnin' thrill ride with with iggy's stooges and Majic Dick in the back seat of The Fall's olde '66 hot rod (motor kustom built by Jon Spencer (not Jesus) ) with the ghost of Hasil Adkins at the wheel and Cap'n Beefheart ridin' shotgun. Mud ballin' n' ass haulin' straight thru the Medway megaliths with the headlights smashed out by yr ex-Aldington Gang. I was drankin' on the first night I sat down to listen to the Jooks of Kents new album The Sun Shines On The Righteous and woke up the next morning in the garage with hay in my hair, a greasy wet harp stain across my forehead, a broken 2B drumstick in my back pocket, an E string tied to my ankle, blood on my teeth and mud on my knees.

The Jooks bring the distorted power of their raw boogie hard and sexy like some insane hybrid mutt dog cross of the earliest sounds of rock, roll and blues
I couldn't have been happier.

THE JOOKS OF KENT ROCK THE DEMON STiNK!

Let's try and catch up with The Jooks Of Kent, shall we?  The wickedly sacrosanct huz/wife team of guitarist Tim Ray and drummer/graphic design queen Scarlett Rickard backed by homeboy/harpist Chris Simmonds are The Jooks Of Kent.  Those busy beavers of DirtySouth England blues.  The last time I wrote about the Jooks was back in the '08 upon the release of their burly freshman slab The Sun Sets On The Righteous. Since then they have released Demon Stink.  Lucky 13 tracks of punkass blues party jams built to hunch and destroy.  They have also thrown down a 5 song blast with Sao Paolo's The Jam Messengers (available via the Jooks MySpace page!).  But don't lets stop there. They also have a new ep dropping any day which will sport a 3-D cover (wif free glasses, mate)!  I told you. Dudes are busy.  

The Jooks, I should mention hail from the garden of England known as Kent which is known for it's hops gardens and home to two of England's natural national treasures, the White Cliffs of Dover and DJ Hillfunk. Y'all catchin' on now? 

Be they from the garden district the Jooks of Kent rawk the deep loamy primal.  Demon Stink style.  While Demon Stink was recorded maybe slightly less loud than the Sun Sets On The Rightous, like knobs set to 13 instead of 18, it's still an overloaded supercharged sled of deeply swaggering hairy knuckle-to-nut dragging black leather motorcycle jacket in top down august blow out.  Regulars on old blighty's Not The Same Old Blues Crap circuit of dirty blues hounds (Jooks drummer Scarlett designs NTSOBC's posters as well as The Jooks merch and album covers) they have destroyed the stage with the likes of Scott H Biram,  Jim Jones Revue,  Seasick Steve.  Demon Stink features workouts well-crafted as early rawk howlers meet Howlin' Wolf kickin' Muddy's ass. The Fall with out the fkd-up unpredictable madness meets Jon Spencer's whatever sans the magniloquence (not that there's anything wrong with that) and brother Beefheart with more tin-can booglarizin' and less Zappa.   From the taut psalm of love gone sick in Baby What's Wrong? to the roisterous bull-doze of Big Bug Asshole to the ol' blues breakdown of Fifty Links and every track between. 

No governors just glass pack cherry bombs and the boom hunch clatter blast n' wail of a filthy blues and roll conflagration done all right to the wall. 
Hail! The Jooks of Kent! 


The Jooks of Kent @ MySpace
BUY Demon Stink @ CDBABY 
or direct from the Jooks. Send 'em a MySpace message.  
You can get shirts and the split disc w/Jam Messengers, too!

Jooks Of Kent - 3 Dogs  
Jooks Of Kent - Big Bug Asshole 
Jooks Of Kent w/Jam Messengers - Jookin'

THE JOOKS of KENT!

Just recieved the new Jooks of Kent album entitled DEMON STiNK in the post today. Whilst I wallows in their new junque lets take a trip thru memory bog and enjoy my previous spiel about the Jooks Of Kent as well as these fanciful reminders of their sheer badassness:

new JOOKS OF KENT video

Previous Jooks Post Here