From epic road songs to tear-stained tales of heartache, Texas-style rockers to dark-humored murder ballads, The Swearengens cover a lot of musical and emotional territory. This six-piece reminiscent of their alt-country forefathers Whiskeytown, The Jayhawks, Dwight Yoakam, Uncle Tupelo, and Steve Earle, inject just enough rock to keep things dangerous. This ain’t new country background music for cubicles and wine tastings, these are memorable songs filled with honesty and passion. Their debut release “Devil Gets Her Way” was named one of “Seattle’s Top Country Albums of 2012″ by the Seattle Weekly. Combined with their raucous live performances and a dedicated following of hard-drinking two-steppers behind them, if you haven’t had a great time at a Swearengens show, then you haven’t been out to one yet.

"This saloon-stomping Seattle sextet...is quintessential alt-country, with all the cognitive dissonance of an upbeat dance tune set to paeans of alcoholism, prescription drugs, domestic homicide and the devil." - City Arts Magazine

"This Seattle country troupe drops their debut release with a lot of honky-tonkin' twang and whiskey-swilling grit…keeps Seattle's alt-country scene alive and drinking heavily." - Seattle Weekly

"Rich and energetic...a formidable wall of whiskey-infused alt-country music." - Randomville

Solo EP out soon. Evening Bell, slow skate

Country singer, guitar, steel, and dobro picker since 1970.

I'm a singer and a songwriter, but I'm not a "singer-songwriter".

Music for driving, dancing, falling in love, or falling apart. 

www.goodbyeheart206.com

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