New Doghouse Lords Website is Live
The Doghouse Lords (Chopper, Javier Matos, John Bazz and Bill Bateman) have a remodeled website and it is now live. Check it out and pick up a copy of their debut cd “Diggin’ at the Doghouse”. They also have a new release coming this Summer on Ratchet Blade Records. Click on link to visit: www.doghouselords.com
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The Heathen Apostles Video “The Reckoning” Debuts Online
The Heathen Apostles debut video ‘The Reckoning” is up and online, check it out and leave a comment on YouTube, “The Reckoning” will be on the upcoming EP, due Spring 2013 on Ratchet Blade Records. The video was directed by the band and features legendary photographer Edward Colver as the Demonic Preacher:
Heathen Apostles Shooting Debut Music Video
The Heathen Apostles, the new project featuring Mather Louth, Chopper Franklin and Thomas Lorioux (along with special guests), are currently shooting the video for “The Reckoning”, off of their soon to be released debut record. It will come out in Spring of 2013, check back for more info on it, and for news on the launch of their website heathenapostles.com. Below are some screen captures of the raw footage.
ENEMY! Out on Digital 11/6/12
The new Phantom of the Black Hills record ENEMY! will be out on iTunes, Amazonmp3, etc. on November 6th. The street date for the physical release isn’t until January 22nd, 2013 but you can get a specially priced copy now from the POTBH webstore HERE.
Featuring Pain & Misery & Raisin’ Hell Again
Great Charley Horse Deals on eBay!
Here’s your chance to get some great deals on Charley Horse items, whether it’s the ultra rare first Limited Edition pressing of Professional Sinners or the new second Screen Printed cover edition:
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Chopper Franklin on Shattered Platter
Chopper did a piece for the vinyl record website Shattered Platter where he recommends lps, turntables, speakers and booze:
Scott “Chopper” Franklin (The Cramps/Wanda Jackson/ Charley Horse/The Mau Maus) gives suggestions for blues & roots music to check out.
Low Estate 16 Horsepower
All of 16 HPs records are on heavy rotation around here, but Low Estate gets the most spins. If a Faulkner reading ever needed a backing track this would get the call. You’ll think you’re listening to the Devil hisself, but when you find out singer David Eugene Edwards is actually deeply religious, you’ll be even more intrigued.
Blues Classics by Memphis Minnie
In my latest project the Heathen Apostles we are doing Black Rat Swing, and ever since pulling out and listening to this record to learn it, I haven’t been able to stop. Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey may have gotten all the accolades, but Minnie is the real deal. This is a great cross-section of her best sides from the 1920’s to the late 1940’s.
Red of Tooth and Claw Murder By Death
When I first put this record on I thought I was hearing the soundtrack to Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, and later when I read the lyrics I knew I was. First Adam Turla’s amazing voice kicks you down, then Sarah Balliet’s great cello steps on your throat. Get two copies of this, you’ll wear the first one out.
Something’s Wrong/Lost Forever Scott H. Biram
This is stripped-down, one-man-band music at its best, but Time Flies is as slick as anything you’ll ever hear. SHB manages to capture both the grit and melody of Leadbelly, along with some great Hank Williams, Sr. storytelling (though a little “rougher around the edges”). He puts on a great live show, too.
Lil Son Lil Son Jackson
Some (incorrectly) call Lil Son a poor man’s Lightnin Hopkins, but this Texas blues stands on its own and also has a great swamp feel to it. On this record (1960 re-recordings of some of his earlier hard-to-find classics) he gives Jimmy Reed and Slim Harpo a run for their money. It’s a recent Arhoolie re-issue, shouldn’t be hard to find.
Well, I go through turntables like crazy, so I keep a stack of them in a back room. The current one is a Technics DC Servo, next up…?
They go through JBL home speakers and a bottle or ten of Old Overholt.
Doghouse Lords on AMC’s “Breaking Bad”
The production team for AMC’s hit series “Breaking Bad” chose the Doghouse Lords’ song “Gambler’s Guts” for episode #503 “Hazard Pay”. We feel the fact that the song was playing during a jailhouse scene is irrelevant…
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