I kinda like the dark country sounds, I blame Hank Williams, so check this dark place out.

Hank Ray - Countricide

Another one I've got to get my hands on!

swt said:

And don't forget The Gibson Bros. I like the album they did with Workdogs, Punk Rock Drivin' Song of a Gun.

 

 

And don't forget The Gibson Bros. I like the album they did with Workdogs, Punk Rock Drivin' Song of a Gun.

You should also check out Pat Todd (former lead man of the Lazy Cowgirls) and the Rank Outsiders. Good stuff there, as well.

And not necessarily "cowpunk," but the Reigning Sound and the Compulsive Gamblers both have some cool countrified garage tracks.

Good for him!

By the way, this happened six months ago. Where ya been? ;)

If you're still in Oregon, you should definetly hit Portland every now and then as it has a good number of record stores that still have decent records mostly in the Broadway district.

Suzanne Walter said:

I was in college before I got to listen to garage. Montana can be something of a cultural void. So working radio in Eugene I heard Thee Headcoatees, Billy's girl band with Holly Golightly. Then the Cramps, the Candysnatchers, April March (& the Makers), I still don't know shit and that's all I know for sure. I do love the sound though.

I would have to say that back when I was about 7 years old.  Going through mom's records, she only had a few.  I found the Shangri Las, "Leader of the Pack"  and have been hooked since then.

Going all the way is a blinding tune :)

Dan said:

I think it was Pebbles Vol 1, sometime around 1990 - that skip in 'Action Woman' won me over straight away. Beaver Patrol, Potato Chip, 1-2-5, Going All The Way, etc...

Amazing record :)

The Ultimatemost High said:

Live 69 by the velvets - still love that record to death

Oh wow, I would love to have seen that Crypt special!

shredder said:

"!!Destroy-Oh-Boy!! by the NEW BOMB TURKS. Bought it on vinyl after seeing their video (in connection with a Crypt special) on german music channel Viva (which is kind of unbelievable looking back now!) in 1995.

"!!Destroy-Oh-Boy!! by the NEW BOMB TURKS. Bought it on vinyl after seeing their video (in connection with a Crypt special) on german music channel Viva (which is kind of unbelievable looking back now!) in 1995.

Well, I'd say you definately have good taste, and the more you stick around here, you'll find more of that sound!
Suzanne Walter said:

I was in college before I got to listen to garage. Montana can be something of a cultural void. So working radio in Eugene I heard Thee Headcoatees, Billy's girl band with Holly Golightly. Then the Cramps, the Candysnatchers, April March (& the Makers), I still don't know shit and that's all I know for sure. I do love the sound though.

I normally play through one of these (picture stolen)

but I when I play with a group, I use a Vox AC30 reissue that is part solid state and has one tube to make it sound real.  I love it.

get yourself two plain heavy glasses. Make a sandwich with the vinyl and then you have two options:

- put it in the oven, low temperature and door open for some minutes, always keeping an eye on it

- or in a warm sunny day, make the same and let the sun do the job

That's a good record that deserves to be saved!

Hey guys I guess this would be the best place for this question. I have a really nice copy of The In Crowd - Nothing you do / Midnight Hour on Ronn. It's got a big hump in the middle of it. I'd really like to repair it but have no idea on how to go about doing that without screwin up the record. Any good solutions?

since young loud and snotty was one of my first "punk" albums i gotta go with that!!! it was years later before electric eels or mirrors showed up here in small town australia... what a hell of a scene cleveland had!!  but DAMNED AND DEMONIC DEADBOYS all the way!!

whoa!!!  sounds like my idea o' heaven (or is that hell?) :D  gotta get this baby...

there's a chosen few ep recently re-issued too (with the band's permission) - i'll find the details and post em up

i just finished reading Spraypaint The Walls - got me all enthusiastic about Black Flag again!  I'm not one of those who only likes the early stuff... being in Australia it wasnt until Damaged that i discovered em anyway (actually the first song i heard was  Police Story on the Let Them Eat Jellybeans comp and that just blew my mind) and i liked the later heavier, uglier stuff... one of those bands that thanks to Rollins' popularity and Ginn's stubbornness sometimes gets lost in the bickering...

Just started listening. I thought Southern Culture on the Skids wrote "Daddy was a Preacher Mama Was a Go-Go Girl" Guess I was wrong. This version by Miss DeLois is more trashy than country. I love it!

Here's a favourite of mine:

Ronnie Hawkins - Who Do You Love? (yeah, it's a Bo Diddley cover, but the screaming and the nasty-ass guitar are out of this world.  It definitely splits the difference between garage and rockabilly)

I'm not sure if Ronnie has much fame in the states, but he's pretty famous in Canada.  He was from the US (Tennesee, I think) but was one of the first rock and rollers to tour Canada.  He thought it was nice up here so he stayed and pretty much introduced Rock and roll to Canada.  He got pretty shitty in the 70s by adopting a real Nashville country sound and doing weak ballads.  His backing band "the Hawks" later became The Band (yeah, Levon Helm, Robbie Robertson "Last Waltz" and all that horseshit).  I think he's still alive.  A couple years ago I saw him on TV telling stories about smoking dope with John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Pierre Trudeau (our hippie Prime Minister of the 70s).

But I digress.  Most of his early albums are pretty solid rock'n'roll/rockabilly but DEFINITELY listen to "Who Do You Love?"  The B-side of that single "Bo Diddley" (yeah, another cover, but one from THE BEST) is really stellar too.

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
July 22, 2011

The Romweber kids are back, and they’re bursting with joyful noise.

 I’m referring to the Dex Romweber Duo — Dex and his sister Sara on drums — and their new album Is That You in the Blue?, which is scheduled for release on Tuesday, July 26. It’s a worthy follow-up to their 2009 album Ruins of Berlin.

A primer for newcomers: Dex Romweber was the frontman for an earlier dynamic duo called Flat Duo Jets. Though the group never got as big as The White Stripes or The Black Keys, FDJ is properly credited for being an important pioneer of the two-person blues-bash sound.

Is That You?, like DRD’s previous album, is a minimalist masterpiece basically consisting of Dex and Sara bashing away, subtly aided by other instruments in certain spots — an organ here, a sax there, stand-up bass here and there. Their North Carolina compatriot Rick Miller of Southern Culture on the Skids helps out on guitar on the opening cut, “Jungle Drums,” while Mary Huff of SCOTS lends some background vocals on “Midnight Sun.”

DRD is the second band I love that has released a version of Billy Boy Arnold’s “Wish You Would” this year. Dex one-ups The Fleshtones by doing two versions of the song here. The first version is the best, but it’s hard to say whether I like that one better than The Fleshtones’ cover. Both bands capture the essence of this blues classic.

“Nowhere” is one of those slow, smoky minor-key songs Dex so loves. He croons the verses and shouts on the choruses. Another one of these is “Midnight Sun,” which is even spookier than “Nowhere.” And speaking of crooning, Dex sings the living bejesus out of the song. He wrote it himself, but it sounds like some powerful pop ballad of the ’50s.

One of the highlights here is DRD’s version of “Brazil,” a song that has been covered by Frank Sinatra, The Coasters, and many in between. Dex adds a “Viva Las Vegas” riff to this jumpy little version. After the first three or four listenings, my favorite tune here is the cover of “Redemption.” This is one of the strange visionary religious songs from the first American Recordings volume. The band speeds it up, with Sara putting some voodoo in her drums.

Dex does a solo acoustic cover of “Homicide,” an obscure rockabilly tune by Myron Lee and the Caddies. It’s not bad, but it could have used a crazy sax like the original version. If that’s the most serious complaint I can find, this has to be a pretty good record. In fact, it’s a mighty fine affair.


Also recommended:

* Peyton on Patton by The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band. Somewhere in the Big Cosmic Blues Afterlife, the angel Charley Patton probably has a chip on his shoulder. “How come that young upstart Robert Johnson gets so much of the credit?” he grumbles to the other blues angels. “I was playing the blues before the devil ever tuned his damned guitar!”

It’s true that Patton has never received nearly as much credit as he deserves as one of the titans of Delta blues.

He was the archetype. Patton was known as a crazy entertainer, tossing his guitar in the air, popping his bass strings like a proto Bootsy Collins, singing about jellyroll one minute and then getting all holy and shouting the gospel the next.

He recorded about 60 songs between 1929 and 1934. And while several compilations of Patton material are available, Allmusic.com gives this depressing disclaimer: “No one will never know what Patton’s Paramount masters really sounded like. When the company went out of business, the metal masters were sold off as scrap, some of it used to line chicken coops. All that’s left are recordings of scratchy 78s.”

But Josh Peyton, known professionally as “The Reverend Peyton,” is out to rescue Patton’s music from the chicken coop. His latest album, just released, is a sweet and powerful tribute to the departed bluesman.

Peyton isn’t from the Delta. He’s from Indiana. But the country blues of Patton and those who followed are the chief driving factor of Peyton’s music.

Rev. Peyton at Santa Fe Brewing Co. Feb. 2010