Name: Those Poor Bastards - Sacrificial Lamb by alternativesoundradio in Stuff and things
Duration: 3 min 19 s
Description: Those Poor Bastards - Sacrificial Lamb ("behold the abyss")

Stuff and things

Its great to be home writing some new songs and finishing some old ones. 2012-13 has been a damned good touring year. Big thanks to Kid Rock for letting me join his show for a couple months and to the Supersuckers for letting me join their band for a tour. Headed to up to Aberdeen, WA before Thanksgiving for some actual studio recording and a couple shows. In the meantime, here is a song I wrote for the fans, family, friends, and the boys in the band. Listen closely. – Leroy Virgil | November 2013

Ballad Of 2012 (Aww Hell)

Motor Sister "Can't Get High Enough" from the album "Get Off"

Get Off

Motor Sister "Can't Get High Enough"

"This one goes out to Eddie Spaghetti who's playing solo at the Lizard Lounge in Wichita tonight."
"$100 recorder, guitar bass and voice, one take, no autotune." - Leroy Virgil
Featuring Metal Marty Chandler on Guitar
Performed and Recorded on 11/26/13

Roadworn And Weary (Eddie Spaghetti / Supersuckers Cover Tune)

"Just A Shell" from the 2014 release, "LV." 
Just A Shell (L. Bowers / Low Down Home Music / ASCAP)
All instruments: Leon Virgil Bowers

Produced by Leon Virgil Bowers 
Recorded, Engineered, Mixed and Co-Produced by Brian Smith at Oceanside Recording, Aberdeen, WA
Mastered by Bill Raymond

www.hellboundglory.com

Hellbound Glory - "LV" - "Just A Shell"

Ghoultown - Under The Phantom Moon

At the lowest moment of my adult life, my friend and brother Big George Ballentine﻿ came to my side to comfort me and make sure I was okay. In the midst of my angst, anger, sadness, depression, and hopelessness, he handed me a copy of Son Volt's "Trace" and told me to listen to the first song, "Windfall". I did so, and it not only changed my life, but in a way, likely saved my life. The song became my anthem for getting through tough times and moving forward, and I've never been able to listen to it without my eyes welling up with tears. Likewise, I've never been able to sing it before, as doing so would make me weep. However, last week I actually got through a take of it without coming apart emotionally. I thought it only fitting to ask Geo to come play some steel on here with me, and I'm honored that he did. I don't know what would have happened had he not given me that album on that fateful day. 

I dedicate this to all of you who are struggling through a period of loneliness, abrupt change, fear, and uncertainty. May you find an old time country station on the AM, with your feet on the floor, your hands on the wheel, and may the wind take YOUR troubles away. 

Godspeed, 
- J.B. 

J.B. Beverley & Big Geo Ballentine - "Windfall" (Son Volt cover)

A cover of the Tom Waits song 'Hell Broke Luce'.  A mix that needs a bit of work but we wanted to share it.  It will be on a tribute album we are participating in. 

"I had a good home but I left
I had a good home but I left, right, 
That big fucking bomb made me deaf, 
A Humvee mechanic put his Kevlar on wrong
I guarantee you’ll meet up with a suicide bomb
Hell broke luce
Hell broke luce

Big fucking ditches in the middle of the road
Pay a hundred dollars just for fillin’ in the hole
Listen to the general every goddamn word
How many ways can you polish up a turd
And left right let, left right left,
And Hell broke luce
Hell broke luce

Yeah, those responsible for making this mess
Got their sorry asses stapled to a goddamn desk
Hell broke luce
Hell broke luce
Left, right, left

What did you do before the war?
I was a chef, I was a chef
What was your name?
It was Geoff, Geoff
I lost my buddy and I wept, wept
I come down from the meth
So I slept, so I slept,
I had a good home but I left, left
Pantsed at the wind for a joke
I pranced right in with the dope
I glanced at her shin she said nope
Left, right, left, left right left

Nimrod Bodfish have you any wool
Get me another body bag the body bag’s full
My face was scorched, scorched
I miss my home I miss my porch

Can I go home in March? 
My stanch was a chin full of soap
That rancid dinner with the pope
Left, right, left

Kelly Presutto got his thumbs blown off
Sergio’s developing a real bad cough
Sergio’s developing a real bad cough
Hell broke luce
Hell broke luce
Hell broke luce

Boom went his head away
And boom went Valerie
What the hell was it that the president said?
Give them all a beautiful parade instead
Left, right, left, left right left

When I was over here I never got to vote
I left my arm in my coat
My mom she died and never wrote
We sat by the fire and ate a goat
Just before he died he had a toke
Now I’m home and I’m blind
And I’m broke
What is next"

Hell Broke Luce cover

I don't know of any other way to heal than through song. 

This is one of the last songs Owen and I sand together. 

R.I.P. Old Friend. You are loved, and will always be missed and remembered. 

"Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory" (Tribute To Owen Mays)

Nobody Knows

Australian chain gang Graveyard Train have explored dark and sometimes menacing territories on their new album Hollow. Twisting and pushing the boundaries of ‘alt-country’ to the extreme, Hollow is a macabre journey that seamlessly moves from swampy stomp to deranged psychadelia to folk ballad. As on previous occasions, the harrowing group vocals sing of darkness and woe, however the album marks a move into darker areas as the human condition is brought into focus. Death has never been more terrifying

Those Poor Bastards - Sacrificial Lamb

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