a traktor-punk whirlwind, & desert-camp side project recorded in one afternoon, in a flop trailer, in the winter of 2012, by a handful of knuckleheads.  

produced & engineered by Neil Mallick
asst. engineered by Lee Bly & Louise Stoodley

vox/jibb-jabb - Ryan Cummings
guitar - Christopher Hack
harp - Lee Bly
vox - Louise Stoodley
drums/orchestra - Neil Mallick

Dusty McCluster & the Musty-Must - Venus Bound (Unknown Hinson Cover)

a traktor-punk whirlwind, & desert-camp side project recorded in one afternoon, in a flop trailer, in the winter of 2012, by a handful of knuckleheads.  

produced & engineered by Neil Mallick
asst. engineered by Lee Bly & Louise Stoodley

vox/jibb-jabb - Ryan Cummings
vox/guitar - Christopher Hack
vox/harp - Lee Bly
vox/hounds - Louise Stoodley
vox/drums - Neil Mallick

Dusty McCluster & the Musty-Must - Tornado Song

a traktor-punk whirlwind, & desert-camp side project recorded in one afternoon, in a flop trailer, in the winter of 2012, by a handful of knuckleheads.  

produced & engineered by Neil Mallick
asst. engineered by Lee Bly & Louise Stoodley

vox/jibb-jabb - Ryan Cummings
guitar - Christopher Hack
harp - Lee Bly
vox - Louise Stoodley
drums - Neil Mallick

Dusty McCluster & the Musty-Must - Trusty

Dusty McCluster & the Musty-Must - 1973

Builder Bill strums the Hits

produced & engineered by Neil Mallick, Slab City 2013

vox/picks - Builder Bill
licks - Carlos Gonzales

Builder Bill Ammon - Greybeard

Builder Bill Ammon - Welcome to the Range

a compilation of artists who met each other by the Salton Sea 12/12, recorded entirely on a found RCA RP3504 monophonic cassette recorder

produced & engineered by Neil Mallick
asst. engineered by Phil Socar

Stray Comp vol 1 :: Builder Bill Ammon - Greybeard

Stray Comp vol 1 :: the Musty-Must - Trusty

Stray Comp vol 1 :: What's the Interlude

Stray Comp vol 1 :: Raven - Rain Spain

Stray Comp vol 1 :: Comical Maus feat. Baxter - Holy Saturday

Stray Comp vol 1 :: Nasty Riffin Interlude

Stray Comp vol 1 :: Steven Boyle - Sarcasm is Coming Back

Stray Comp vol 1 :: Margaret - Traveler that Suffers

Stray Comp vol 1 :: Tape Interlude

Stray Comp vol 1 :: Neil - Das Fragenlied

A four-track recording, and side project of Amps For Christ, featuring maestro Henry Barnes, post-baccalaureate Erika M. Anderson, and seventeen-year-old Neil Mallick.  Recorded mostly live in an empty church.  One vocal overdub & psychedelic treatment recorded at Baldy's Big Toe Studio.  Produced & Engineered by Henry Barnes & Bill Selak, 2004.  

Henry Barnes - Electric Sitar
Neil Mallick - Tablas, Vocal
Erika M. Anderson - Acoustic Guitar, Backing Vocal

Amps For Christ - The Cherry Tree Carol (Henry Barnes, Neil Mallick, Erika M. Anderson, 2004)

Neil Mallick cut his teeth as an artist playing in the counter-culturalist dives & derelict campfires of Post-Recession America.

     Described as a Down & Out Musician of Philadelphia by journalist Matthew Albasi, as a Bluesman of Bessemer, AL by living-link Henry Gip Gipson, & as the Chanteuse of Slab City by TIME Video correspondent James Hall, Neil has carved a distinctive, multi-faceted trail with his main project, The Sixth Son.

     The Self, Titled EP - The Sixth Son's self-produced debut, soon to be re-released on Records Ad Nauseam - served as the musical backdrop for multiple tours of North America, traveling as far south as Guadalajara & Mexico City and as far north as Victoria, BC & Toronto.  April 2015 was The Sixth Son's first tour of Europe.  Through all of this, Neil Mallick alternated between Los Angeles & Slab City as a home-base while working on new material, and very recently he has attracted the attention of Records Ad Nauseam in Hollywood, CA, who will be releasing The Sixth Son's debut LP How Real Is Real? in 2018.

     The sound & aesthetic of The Sixth Son can be described as Singer-Songwriter/Futurist, tapping into the deep well of common turmoils & triumphs, while looking forward, but always speaking to the moment.  Los Angeles music journalist Brad Roberts writes of the live-performance:  "[I] have first hand knowledge of just how good Neil Mallick, and whatever band he puts together, is.  The first time I saw him... his only accompaniment was a guy on a saxophone... the sounds they made were uncanny and it was a completely involving set highlighted by Neil's remarkably flexible voice coupled with his powerful, Hendrix-influenced raging guitar... At another show I hosted in December, The Sixth Son had become a band... which turned into a musical free-for-all... in April it was as a solo, so I can say with confidence, no matter how many (or any) other musicians he plays with, he always delivers a surprising, remarkably skillful set."
 
     The Sixth Son will be releasing How Real Is Real? on various analogue/digital formats with Records Ad Nauseam this fall.  2018 and beyond should see the continuation of releases, publications, & playing music in the world, for people.

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