The Fox Hunt - I'll Drink Cheap (Vid)

Sorry about the lack of activity around here. Just some personal shit going on, but never fear I'll get back to it shortly with a few big surprises I have in the works.

Right now I want you guys to know that the new Fox Hunt album IS OUT, and it's FUCKING GREAT!

There will be a proper review later, but for now.......Listen and order here, and enjoy this vid of one of the new songs.

Wrinkle Neck Mules - Catfish & Color TVs (vid)

Really good vid of the Wrinkle Neck Mules performing the song Catfish & Color TVs on air last Thursday. This song is from their latest Let The Lead Fly.

Drive By Truckers - After The Scene Dies (vid), and news

Here's a great vid of one of the new songs from The Big To-Do, due out March 16th. The band starts their Big To-Do tour tomorrow, and they are also offering a free download of the first single, a song called This Fucking Job. In even more DBT news, they will be screening the first ever DBT documentary entitled The Secret To A Happy Ending in Feb. I can't wait to see that!

Ray Wylie Hubbard - Drunken Poets Dream (vid)

I'm just going to go ahead and declare this Ray Wylie Hubbard week at ATS, which means I have something extra special for you folks coming this weekend. For now though, enjoy this excellent high quality HD vid of Ray Wylie performing and acoustic version of the song Drunken Poet's Dream off his new album.  This was recorded during last weeks Music Fest in Steamboat, Colorado by the fine folks over at Music Fog who are doing God's work when it comes to capturing great artists on high quality vids.

Here's to next year...

Just wanted to say a quick thanks to everyone for stopping by and especially to those who commented, to those who follow me on twitter, and to those who send me emails. One of my new years resolutions is to keep up with my email, so anyone who sent me an email and I haven't responded yet....sorry folks. To bands that have submitted music to me but I haven't replied....it's not you, it's me....just overwhelmed is all. I WILL get a handle on this. Thanks again everyone and Happy New Year....here's to 2010

Vintage V-Roys vids

As you guys know, I'm a huge V-Roys fan from way back. Matter fact I was telling someone the other day that I bet I played "Just Add Ice" more in the 90's than any other album and it remains one of my favorite albums to this day.  So when I found these vintage V-Roys clips on youtube (posted by Scott Miller no less) I about shit a cinderblock.  Check them out, you got Mary, and the most interesting to me (because it's never made it's way to an album) is the Cold Cruel World clip.

While I don't know if the V-Roys will ever get back together (I wish they would), fans in East Tennessee can get the next best thing as Scott and Mic will be playing a one of their legendary New Years Eve shows at the Bijou Theater in Knoxville. Coincidentally, the same night Virginia Tech plays Tennessee....bring it Scott!!!

and what the hell, let's celebrate black friday too....

I've posted this vid before, but really is there a more appropriate day to post this song than today? You can download this free (and great) album here: Deano Meats The Purveyors

BettySoo - Never Knew No Love (Acoustic) (vid)

The folks at Music Fog continue to capture amazing videos of amazing artists. This is one of them.

Tom Russell - Veteran's Day (Vid)

Pretty self explanatory, not much of a vid, but great song. Don't miss the post over at Ninebullets about Kasey Anderson's fantastic "I Was A Photograph"

Drive By Truckers - Lookout Mountain (Zombie Version) (Vid)

I hadn't intended to post anything else today, but when I saw this vid that TwangNation (http://www.twangnation.com/) posted on twitter, well I just had to post it here.

Roky Erickson - Night Of The Vampire (Acoustic) (Vid)

Roky Erickson has been dominating my speakers for the past 2 weeks as he does every year around this time. If you don't have it, I highly recommend picking up The Evil One (Plus One) which includes his Evil One/I Think Of Demons album plus a radio show that has some killer interview segments in addition to early versions of the songs.

Heed the warning of this song: If it's raining and your running don't slip in mud cause if you do you might slip in blood tonight......is the night of the vampire

Seasick Steve - Never Go West (Vid) & Free EP alert!

Oh man I just found out that Seasick Steve released a new album this week! Very excited about this, his album Started Out With Nothing (And Still Got Most Of It Left) was a favorite from last year. His new album is called Man From Another Time and expect it to be just as killer! I don't think I've talked about Seasick Steve on here before, but I know you guys would dig him. Especially you folks who dig Scott H. Biram. Seasick Steve is to Scott H. Biram, what The Flying Burrito Brothers were to The Eagles....that is, a purer form of the same art.

While you are on his site, you can click to recieve a free live EP from earlier this year (just register your email). I just got mine and it's something you are going to want to download!....can't beat the price anyway!

Here is a clip from earlier this week of one of the new songs.....man I love the hell out of this guy!

Extremely belated album review: The Fox Hunt - America's Working Hard So We Don't Have To

I promised an album review to these guys well over a few months ago. Since then they have actually released a self-titled EP, and are in the midst of making their third studio album. I look extremely forward to that new studio album, and the track I've heard off that EP was great.

This album however, released earlier in the year does not contain any new material. No it is a string band album front to back. Very old time sounding. I would call it timeless sounding. Like hopping in a time machine and catching a hoedown in post-civil war Appalachia. That's what this album is, old time mountain music. West Virginia mountain music I'm sure the band would be quick to point out. You know those songs Alan Lomax went around recording on poor equipment back in the 20's and 30's, those old scratchy sounding songs that still manage to evoke so much power. These are well produced versions of those same songs by a band who plays them with so much reverence you would swear they were from another time.

The album pretty consistently alternates between singing songs and instrumentals, and I don't know which ones I like more. I will say after revisiting this album for this review it is a perfect album for this fall time of year. Now that may just me being sentimental as I have many fond memories of going to the "Lumberjackin' Bluegrassin' Jamboree" every October as a child at Twin Falls State Park in The Fox Hunt's home state of West Virginia. And that's what this album reminds me of. So if you passed on this album back in the spring, or did happen to pick it up but haven't gave it a listen lately, DIG IT OUT AND LISTEN TO IT! This is perfect fall, leaves turning, mountain music!

Here is what a guy who writes better reviews than me thinks of it

Visit The Fox Hunt website

Buy the album here

Vid of Hang Me off this album

Listen to Fox Hunt - Picked Up A Hammer here

Listen to Fox Hunt - Little Rose here

The Bottle Rockets - Hard Times (Vid)

Here is a killer in-studio version of one of the songs off the new Bottle Rockets album Lean Forward

Annie and The Beekeepers - Again And Again (Vid)

WOW! Came across this while looking through some vids Music Fog made during last weeks Americana Music Festival. Really, all I can say is WOW!

Another Betty-Soo vid

Yep, I'm posting another one. Why, because it's my blog and I can that's why!! :-P

Can't get enough of this stuff!

http://www.bettysoo.com

My latest musical obsession: Betty-Soo

I will be talking more about this in the coming weeks, but I just discovered this wonderful artist and I'm hooked. This song is off her (excellent) latest album Heat Sin Water Skin (you can listen at that link)

http://www.bettysoo.com/

Harry Potter for the chemically unbalanced...

Anticipation.....Chuck Prophet......Let Freedom Ring.......Oct. 27th

Ray Wylie Hubbard - Wanna Rock and Roll (Vid)

So remember I said I went to see Ray Wylie at The Shed in Maryville, TN a little while back? Well The Shed was filming it, and here is the footage they put up on Youtube. Unfortunately I contacted them and they would not sell me a DVD of the show :( Shame too 'cause that's some high quality footage!

And man, Lucas can WAIL!, this vid doesn't show the half of it either.

James McMurtry - Choctaw Bingo (Acoustic) (Vid)

killer acoustic version of possibly the greatest song ever!