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John The Conqueror - All Alone

From the album "More Primitive".
“More Primitive” finds Seattle’s Lonesome Shack exploring the depths of boogie and country blues. The trio’s sound is raw and immediate with finger-picked guitar lines, soulful crooning and big danceable grooves. Ben Todd’s introspective lyrics take the American blues tradition to a new level, examining personal history, loss of friends, and a burning desire to get to the primitive core of life.

More Primitive

Wrecks

LONESOME SHACK - Wrecks

Dom Mariani, legendary frontman of garage rockers The Stems and Power Pop heroes DM3, steps away from his current blues-heavy outfit Datura4 to return to his jangle pop roots. His brand-new solo single, 'Jangleland', is a breezy, country-tinged ode to the electric folk rock of the late '60s and the sun-kissed West Coast vibe of the early ‘70s.

Jangleland

Brimming with creativity, “Fluff” is the debut album from singer-songwriter Andy Gabbard (Buffalo Killers). This is “Modern Grunge Fuzz Pop with 60’s aura”. 

On “Fluff” you can hear the deeply-solid effects of the grunge genre and mid-90’s ‘alternative music’ in a sonic gestalt. Exhibiting characteristics of fairly recent genres, as well as some classics that surrounded him during his youth, the album breaks barriers of seemingly comfortable, unthreatening music cultivating a physical embodiment of Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr, latter Beatles and even Brian Wilson!

Fluff

More

ANDY GABBARD - More

Heath Green and The Makeshifters is a group of incredible deep-feel musicians hailing from Birmingham, Alabama.

The band is fronted by Heath Green, a singer who bears the Eddie Hinton mantle as much as anyone living does. The Makeshifters’ heavy sound has been compared to Leon Russell and The Shelter People, Humble Pie, and Joe Cocker.

Heath Green & The Makeshifters

Hold On me

HEATH GREEN & THE MAKESHIFTERS - Hold On Me

The second album from GospelbeacH continues to deftly honor the grand tradition of West Coast rock and roll. This time around it's more 70's FM rock than 60's AM gold, more cosmo than country with a theme of timeless love.

Straightforward, inviting songwriting and singing by Brent Rademaker (a founding member of Beachwood Sparks).

Warm classic production and tight harmonies once again by guitarist/vocalist Jason Soda. Recorded in Los Angeles at Palomino Sound, Jason's new 1970's vintage artisan recording studio. Third GospelbeacH core member Jonny Niemanns cascading piano, organ and mellotron fill out the albums rich sound.

In the tradition of the Troubadour scene of the 1970's Another Summer of Love features some of the GospelbeacH friends and Los Angeles's finest players and singers including, Pearl Charles, Miranda Lee Richards, members of Wilco, Mapache, Eels, and pickers from the Grand Ole Echo.

The album artwork features reflective photography by GospelbeacH guitarist/singer Neal Casal and Allah-Las drummer Matthew Correia.

Another Summer Of LOve

Strange Days

GOSPELBEACH - Strange Days

Once again the blues is in perfectly unsafe hands on Left Lane Cruiser's new full-length studio effort, "Claw Machine Wizard."

Claw Machine Wizard

LEFT LANE CRUISER - Claw Machine Wizard

The eighth album from Buffalo Killers, ‘Alive and Well in Ohio,’ was recorded at their Howler Hills Farm analog studio on their own terms. Equipped with only the knowledge they had gained over the years, the band crafted this album without rules or pressure.
Created and produced by songwriting brothers Zachary and Andrew Gabbard, the warm, consciously imperfect, and raw sound  nds its inspiration in seasons of change, life, longing, love, and family. The universal truth that the only constant is change is woven throughout the 12 songs.
The album, conceptually, is inspired by the desire to create something homegrown and real. Pull up the faders and you can hear the guys singing, stomping, clapping and bleeding into each other’s mics... on their own time, in their own space. They captured the melodies as they emerged.
The songs on ‘Alive and Well in Ohio’ are Buffalo Killers most truthful yet.

Alive And Well In Ohio

Black Halo

BUFFALO KILLERS - Black Halo

Mark “Porkchop” Holder originally turned the blues on its head more than a decade ago as a founding member of punk/blues band Black Diamond Heavies. While he’s been tearing up juke joints, festivals and dive bars since then with his own  ery brand of the blues, it wasn’t until earlier this year that
the Tennessee musician released his own debut solo album, Let It Slide, an acclaimed effort that No Depression described as, “... re in a barrel. If the Rolling Stones camped with Howlin’ Wolf and Billy Gibbons on trucker speed for the weekend with a fuzz pedal, this would be its precious procreation.”
Now just nine months later, the guitar-slinging, harp-shredding bluesman is releasing his follow-up album, Death and the Blues. On it, Holder, along with Travis Kilgore (bass) and Doug Bales (drums), builds on the success of his previous album with eight newly penned tracks, along with three rousing covers.
Despite the fact that this was recorded in the same studio as their last album (Tiny Buzz in Chattanooga, TN) and by the same line-up, the results are much heavier and tighter on this affair, with Holder’s inventive slide guitar-work snarling and baring teeth over the rock-solid rhythms from Kilgore and Bales.
“Blues is the music of poor people, and poor people live closer to death than other people do,” Holder admits. “The message of the title track is simple: death and the blues are real. I have a personal connection with the symbols of death; they remind me not to waste my time.”

Death And The Blues

Coffin Lid

MARK "PORKCHOP" HOLDER - Coffin Lid

What happens when an anti-social petty thief, a male hustler, and a delinquent runaway come together to join forces in the streets of NYC? One of two things, usually. Either the birth of a gang of misfit criminals, or a legendary rock & roll band. Luckily, for society’s sake, the latter has turned out to be true for Beechwood.

Songs From The Land Of Nod

I Don't Wanna Be The One You Love

BEECHWOOD - I Don't Wanna Be The One You Love

In 2008, shortly after returning to Birmingham from college in NY, Lee Bains fell in with the Dexateens, a Tuscaloosa institution whose raggedy union of cock-eyed rebel pride and forward-thinking fury proved to be the perfect apprenticeship for a confused Southern boy. After Bains had played with the band for a couple or three years, a couple or three hundred shows, the Dexateens came to a reluctant end. Bains found himself off the road, back in Birmingham, without a band. He also found himself with a passel of powerful songs. Casting his nets in central Alabama’s rock’n’roll clubs, Bains assembled the Glory Fires. There is a Bomb in Gilead is the band’s debut album.

There Is A Bomb In Gilead

Centerville

LEE BAINS & THE GLORY FIRES - Centreville

Home of real rock music : The Bobby Lees, Datura4, Jesper Lindell, GospelbeacH, Handsome Jack, Beechwood, James Leg, Left Lane Cruiser,  Dirty Streets, Radio Moscow, The Bonnevilles,  Mark ‘Porkchop’ Holder, Paul Collins, & more!

John The Conqueror - All Alone

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