11 - Black Heart

10 - Scorched Earth

9 - Goddamnit, It's Christmas

8 - The Worst Part Of Me

7 - We Were Lurkers

6 - Old Farmhouse

5 - I Took You Up The Mountain

4 - Mama's Favorite Son

3 - Somebody Else's Name

1 - Everything Follows This

From the upcoming album Scorched Earth, Black Heart, to be released in the spring of 2023. Get a free download of this song from slackeyeslim.bandcamp.com.

Joe Frankland: Vocals, Guitar, Piano
Squeezebox Sam Koskela: Accordion

Lyrics:
In the bed of a beat up old Chevrolet we ride 
I didn’t have any kind words left to say 
So I kept it all inside 
Brother, oh my brother what made you this way? 

We counted the stars ‘til they all went away 
How could you forget that we’re from the same place? 
Now you’re looking at me like you think I’m the cause of your pain 

You walk in the door, the dog starts to tremble and shake 
No one says a word, but Goddamn it, it’s Christmas day 
If you were anyone else I swear I’d put you in your place 

You’re drunk in the morning and already starting a fight 
You must think I’m an idiot. I see what you’re not even trying to hide 
I guess I was wrong for thinking we were on the same side 
I doubt that you will but I’ll be here if you change your mind

Goddamnit It's Christmas

El Santo Grial: La Pistola Piadosa is the second full-length album from Wisconsin-based Slackeye Slim. This follow-up to their 2007 debut, Texas Whore Pleaser, is the brainchild of bandleader Joe Frankland in collaboration with singer/songwriter Graham Lindsey. The fourteen tracks of the concept album tell the story of a young man whose quest for truth leads him on a divine mission, assisted by the mysterious revolver. 

In El Santo Grial: La Pistola Piadosa, a great departure from their previous effort, Frankland's trademark baritone howl sounds like the world-weary ghost of Johnny Cash backed by a band of Apache holy men and Mexican gunfighters, lost on a peyote trip in Death Valley. The album draws from numerous inspirations, including the music of Leonard Cohen, Calexico, and Devotchka, the writing of Harry Crews and the films of Jim Jarmusch and Akira Kurosawa. To further influence the album’s unique tone, recording took place at a number of makeshift studios in Montana, from an old mansion in Anaconda to a junkyard in Bozeman and the Museum of Fine Arts in Butte. 

Though intentionally sporadic over the course of the entire album, El Santo Grial: La Pistola Piadosa stays surprisingly grounded and shows a vast maturity in the writing, recording and organization of the tracks, which not only sets it apart from other concept albums but ranks it up with Murder By Death's In Bocca al Lupo and Johnny Cash’s The Rambler.
Artist website: www.slackeyeslim.com
Artist email: contact@slackeyeslim.com
Artist Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Slackeye-Slim/183723731641455
Label: Farmageddon Records
Label website: www.newrootsorder.com


01 - No One Knows My Name

02 - Come One! Come All!

El Santo Grial: La Pistola Piadosa is the second full-length album from Wisconsin-based Slackeye Slim. This follow-up to their 2007 debut, Texas Whore Pleaser, is the brainchild of bandleader Joe Frankland in collaboration with singer/songwriter Graham Lindsey. The fourteen tracks of the concept album tell the story of a young man whose quest for truth leads him on a divine mission, assisted by the mysterious revolver. 

In El Santo Grial: La Pistola Piadosa, a great departure from their previous effort, Frankland's trademark baritone howl sounds like the world-weary ghost of Johnny Cash backed by a band of Apache holy men and Mexican gunfighters, lost on a peyote trip in Death Valley. The album draws from numerous inspirations, including the music of Leonard Cohen, Calexico, and Devotchka, the writing of Harry Crews and the films of Jim Jarmusch and Akira Kurosawa. To further influence the album’s unique tone, recording took place at a number of makeshift studios in Montana, from an old mansion in Anaconda to a junkyard in Bozeman and the Museum of Fine Arts in Butte. 

Though intentionally sporadic over the course of the entire album, El Santo Grial: La Pistola Piadosa stays surprisingly grounded and shows a vast maturity in the writing, recording and organization of the tracks, which not only sets it apart from other concept albums but ranks it up with Murder By Death's In Bocca al Lupo and Johnny Cash’s The Rambler.
Artist website: www.slackeyeslim.com
Artist email: contact@slackeyeslim.com
Artist Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Slackeye-Slim/183723731641455
Label: Farmageddon Records
Label website: www.newrootsorder.com


Introducing Drake Savage

04 - The Chosen One (Pt I)

05 - Prayer

Vengeance Gonna Be My Name

07 - El Mundo, Mi Enimigo

08 - El Santo Grial - La Pistola Piadosa

09 - The Chosen One (Pt. II)

10 - Judgment Day

Make It Right

Tomorrow Morning's Gonna Come

13 - The Chosen One (Pt. III)

14 - A Song Called Love

The new album from Slackeye Slim, "Giving My Bones to the Western Lands." Available January 20th, 2014 from bandcamp.slackeyeslim.com!

Where the Wind Will Let Me Go

Don't Bury Me

Missy Columbia

I Wanna Be Yer Zombie

05 My Name Ain't Tex

Instead of counting streams, chasing likes on social media, or making thirty second videos desperately begging for attention on that Tik Tak or whatever it's called, Slackeye Slim has always stayed true to himself, his love for the West, and his accidentally earned enigmatic reputation.   Amused by a rumor he saw circulating online that he didn’t actually exist, he decided to run with it.  

“Like many of the leathered-skinned, sand-blasted, sullen and desperate characters which populate his stories, Slackeye Slim seems more apparition than man, shifting in and out of the material consciousness, showing up when you least expect him, and disappearing for years at a time in between.” - Saving Country Music 

Slackeye Slim has been the de facto OG of the western genre since 2006. Taking influence from an abrupt decision to move to Butte, Montana at the age of 21 and working for a year as a classic country radio DJ, Slackeye Slim abandoned his early influences in punk and metal and traded them in for country music. After struggling to make ends meet in Montana, he returned to his native Ohio and got his start singing the over-the-top cowboy songs found on his first album "Texas Whore Pleaser" accompanied by distorted acoustic guitar at legendary punk rock dive bars like Annabelle's in Akron.

Coming up during the rise of the early 2000’s underground country scene, a movement in which he never fit in, he now finds himself not fitting in with the current resurgence of western musicians. No matter what was in fashion at the time, he has always chosen to pursue music on his own terms without worrying about the outcome; quietly pouring over his songs, releasing them for free or pay what you want, and then immediately vanishing into the emptiness of the American West again to live outside of the spotlight. 

Slackeye Slim has been described as “what it would sound like if Ennio Morricone wanted to be Link Wray when he grew up” - No Depression. “He never intended to be a part of any genre, but it didn’t stop his 2011 album El Santo Grial: La Pistola Piadosa from becoming one of the best western-inspired albums in the dying gasps of the alternative country movement.” - The Musical Divide 

While all eyes were on him following the release of his second album "El Santo Grial: La Pistola Piadosa," Slackeye weighed his options. With things linings up in his favor to break out of the underground, he decided to skip touring life and instead moved to a 2000 acre ranch in western Colorado. He began working on his third album, "Giving My Bones to the Western Lands." Recorded entirely in the abandoned homestead buildings on the ranch, this album marked a shift in focus from metaphysical cowboy tales to more personal songwriting, although there was still plenty of irreverent gunslinger swagger to be found. 

In the spring of 2020, Slackeye decided to use his music to help raise money for organizations on the front lines of covid relief. Performing several online streams from remote and incredibly scenic locations around SW Colorado, and organizing a benefit for Navajo and Pueblo covid relief, he was able to help raise nearly $10,000 dollars from all of his fundraising efforts.

Currently, Slackeye Slim lives in the middle of nowhere in the desert of Southwest Colorado where he raises a family, roams the surrounding canyon country in search of Ancestral Puebloan ruins, and builds his own instruments.

He is working on his fourth album, slated to be released sometime in late 2022 or early 2023.

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