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

Some of Patton’s greatest tunes are included here — among them “Mississippi Boweavil Blues,” “Shake It and Break It” (which was recorded by Canned Heat in the early ’70s), “A Spoonful Blues,” and “Tom Rushen Blues.” And there’s not one, not two, but three versions of Patton’s “Some of These Days I’ll Be Gone.” There’s one featuring an acoustic guitar, one with a banjo, and one with a slide guitar. The last is my favorite.

My chief complaint about this album is that I miss the Big Damn Band — Breezy Peyton on washboard and Aaron “Cuz” Persinger on percussion, Though it’s not billed as such, Peyton on Patton is basically a Josh Peyton solo album. Breezy supplies strong call-and-response vocals on “Elder Greene Blues” but you barely hear Persinger. The only drumming he does is slapping a tobacco barrel like bongos with his bare hands. True, most of Patton’s recordings were done solo. But I think the full band, which itself is pretty minimalist, would have added more dimension.

I don’t think Charley would have minded.

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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.

"Primitive" is a great song, and I'm curious if you like the Cramps' cover of it?

Andy Climax said:

Just started workin in Perth Scotland when i was 17. A great wee independant shop now closed (like so many up here) 'Goldrush'. I found the 'Best of Pebbles vol 1' on Orange paint splattered vinyl. Loved Rudi's cover art and was hooked.The Groupies  'Primitive' still gives me goosebumps when i listen.

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.

Just started workin in Perth Scotland when i was 17. A great wee independant shop now closed (like so many up here) 'Goldrush'. I found the 'Best of Pebbles vol 1' on Orange paint splattered vinyl. Loved Rudi's cover art and was hooked.The Groupies  'Primitive' still gives me goosebumps when i listen.

Oh hell yeah! I've used them on 3 or 4 of my podcasts. Hankenstein is a classic!

They are from Western MA and I have had the good luck to see them a few times.  Always a fun time.

I have a couple of their CDs and really should pull them out and play them again.

Yeah, I LOVE Angry Johnny and the Killbilles....Definitely a favorite of mine.

Anyone listen to Angry Johnny and the Killbillies? One of my favs! Give em a shot Killbillies Website Drag Racing the Devil - Youtube

looking for a ride at the moment...GORIES!

Puttin' these on my shoppin' list..Thanks Kopper!

Here's another: FRONTIER TRUST

These guys played in St. Louis a couple of times back in the '90s and were fan-fucking-tastic. It was more than just "cowpunk"... more like TRACTOR PUNK. I can't find any videos on YouBoob (a shame), but if I were you, I'd hunt down their "Speed Nebraska" LP... click the link below:

http://www.speednebraska.com/independent_bands/frontier_trust.php

Supposedly you can get a free download here, but I can't get the page to come up:

http://www.thebandbrokeup.com/2011/02/05/frontier-trust-speed-nebraska/

Amazon has it, though:

http://www.amazon.com/Speed-Nebraska/dp/B003DZEK2S/ref=tmm_msc_title_0

I don't know if they'd qualify as "cowpunk" or not, but I highly recommend the Lazy Cowgirls!

How about Nine Pound Hammer? Helluva lot better than that Nashville Pussy crap!

And the Cowslingers!

Joey.. love Rank'n'File as well as The Dils, like Cowboy Nation, last I heard Chip was in a band called PCH which was much more of a pop punk in the Bad Religion vein.

The Gun Club - Fire of Love 

Not the purest cow punk, but whatever...

I know it doesn't scream garage, but I just use a Les Paul with P90s or a 61 RI SG direct into a Mesa/Boogie Class V on the green channel, sometimes with a but of overdrive in between. Works great. I have a marshall coming from Fed Ex today that Im anxious to try. My other guitarist has an Epiphone semi-hollow into an old Bassman.

I Like the band too , but I think they only toured in USA ?

Am I wrong  ? 

Cause I never heard of them playing Europe , especially France.

E.

I am a Detroit dude, so I've seen them many times and hung out with them, my friends' bands have shared shows with them, etc. At shows, they are all pretty approach-able and you can chat with them easily. Rachel can be really sweet (even though she isn't always sweet on stage).
All of the above comments I would not disagree with: you all seem to feel out the band pretty well.
Regardless, I always love seeing them live. They are fun and they play fun music (even though some shows are better than others, I've never seen them suck live). When they start playing, the room seems to get much happier because the music is good for the mood.
All I can say is, even though they are a cover band, check them out and I don't think you'll be disappointed.