To celibrate the recent Van Halen announcement of a Fall tour and possible new release with thier original singer David Lee Roth, Twang Nation brings you this.
Still waiting for the resurrection.
Bourbon Crow, the country side project of North Carolina’s horror punk band Wednesday 13 (ex-Murderdolls frontman) and his former bassist Rayen Belchere, will embark on a short tour of Texas between September 9 and Sepember 15. According
to a press release, “these will be stripped down, acoustic shows. “The first confirmed performance is September 15 in Houston, Texas at The Reverend Horton Heat pre-party at the Red Room (Meridian). The Reverend Horton Heat will perform later that night with The Gore Gore Girls and The Phantom Rockers.
Bourbon Crow released its debut CD, “Highway to Hangovers”, on Horror High, LLC in October 2006. The band will return to the studio later this year to record its sophomore effort.
9.11.07 - San Antonio, TX - Rock Bottom
9.12.07 – Austin, TX – Room 710 w/ Rhoades D’Ablo & The Devil’s Right Hand
9.13.07 - Dallas, TX - DarkSide Lounge w/ GHOULTOWN, John Chaos Sideshow and the Spook City All Stars
9.14.07 - Fort Worth, TX - Wreck Room w/ GHOULTOWN
9.15.07 - Houston, TX at The Reverend Horton Heat Pre-Party at the Red Room (Meridian)
Looks like it’s shaping up to be a sleazy, greasy Fall. Detroit-based Deadstring Brothers are taking some time
from the road to follow up 2006’s Starving Winter Report (Bloodshot Records) this October with “Silver Mountain”
(Bloodshot Records.)
Produced in the band’s own recording studio,Silver Mountain boasts the tunesmanship of The Faces and the barroom
howl of The Band stewed together in homage to the blues of the American South and dancehalls of the urban factory
North. Music like this formed the genesis of album-oriented FM rock—this record showcases high energy bluesy rave-ups
and hymnal country ballads. Silver Mountain is a coming out party for sultry singer Masha Marjieh. Gritty and seductive,
reminiscent of ‘60s era Tina Turner, Masha steps into the spotlight on eight of the 11 tracks, showcasing her hot-blooded
and lustful voice, leaving no doubt that the biggest heart in the room now belongs to this soulful vocalist. Harmonica
player Mickey Raphael also took a break from his place alongside the great Willie Nelson, contributing to “The Light
Shines Within” and “Slow Down.”
Much of the story behind Silver Mountain is the band’s late nights at the Heavy Load, an underground club night in London’s West End, where they met future Brother Spencer Cullum. Led by Heavy Load Rob and his very lovely wife, Hippy Karen, the Heavy Load debuted in 1999 and celebrates vintage rock music from the 60s to the mid-70s. It’s music that really makes you feel at home, says Heavy Load Rob, and apparently he’s right—Now in its 8th year, the Heavy Load is one of the most popular club nights in London, attracting an enthusiastic crowd, and in turn, defining a scene, much like the dance nights and local bands that played at The Factory eventually became part of rock history. It was only a matter of time before the Heavy Load’s playlists from the past influenced a new breed of bands.
The Deadstring Brothers - New Shit
Hank Williams III has updated his cool yet creepy web site and posted confirmed Summer tour dates. Get your cowboy hats and Misfits t-shirts on and hit one of III’s always memorable and rowdy shows.
Big Red Goad w/Power of County will be opening all shows.
July 10 Vinos, Little Rock AR
July 11 Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa OK
July 13 Backyard, Austin TX
July 14 Cynthia W. Mitchell Pavilion, Houston TX
July 18 Launchpad, Albuquerque NM
July 20 Marquee, Tempe AZ
July 21 House Of Blues, San Diego CA
July 22 Roxy, Los Angeles CA
July 24 Slim’s, San Francisco CA
July 27 Dante’s, Portland OR
July 28 Big Easy, Spokane WA
July 29 Big Easy, Boise ID
July 31 Gothic, Denver CO
Hank III - Nighttime Ramblin Man
Los Angeles based and self-proclaimed “world’s loundest country band” - The Snakehandlers - and after hearing ‘em they have a damn good fighting chance, will provide the theme music for MTV’s Wrestling Society X, the Trailer Park Boyz tag team. The perfect accompaniment to hopped up rednecks whooping ass on basic cable. Yeee haaaaaaaw!
Music Made a Man Out of Me (mp3)
I’ve had a running list of rock stars already straddling the fence of rock and country and
could probably make a pretty great straight-up country release (Tom Waits, Nick Cave, PJ Harvey)
and then there’s those that you never considered for that list but when their name come up to
do something in that vein you say “Hmmm, yeah that could be cool.” This story from Nashville
newspaper, The Tennessean falls into category 2.
Robert Plant (ex-Led Zeppelin) and bluegrass diva Alison Krauss are the collaborators in question.
After Plant was spotted at several “see and be seen” Nashville restaurants and clubs in recent days,
columnist Beverly Keel started sniffing around and discovered that the seemingly unlikely pair have
been in the studio, recording an album of duets under the watchful ear of producer T Bone Burnett.
Release date for the album has yet to be announced.
The two have recently become label-mates, as Rounder Records Group has just released Plant’s first
ever live performance DVD, Robert Plant and The Strange Sensation, from a 2005 PBS Soundstage
production.
Twang note - for a great Zep cover from a great band check out Devil in a Woodpile’s cover of Bron-Y-Aur Stomp(mp3) on their release In Your Lonesome Town
From Pitchfork - Nick Cave and three members of his Bad Seeds– Warren Ellis (also of Dirty Three), Martyn Casey, and Jim Sclavunos– will release their as-yet-untitled debut album as Grinderman on March 5 via Mute in the UK.
Grinderman’s music is “an instinctual yawlp that…resurrects the demons of each musician’s past: the trashcan proselytizing of Birthday Party-era Nick; Jim Sclavunos’ late 70s New York no-wave noise wisdom; Martyn Casey’s ominous Triffids bass reverb; plus Ellis’ avant-garde soundtrack work and his teenage love of Black Sabbath,” according to a press release.
“No Pussy Blues”– the song streaming from the band’s MySpace page– could be mistaken for a track from the Stooges’ reunion album, or at least what we hope that record will sound like. It’s noisy, funny, raw, and totally cathartic.
As previously reported, Dirty Three’s ATP in April will include sets from Grinderman and Nick Cave solo. Cave also has some European solo dates scheduled for the rest of November.
Finally, Cave has re-teamed with John Hillcoat, director of 2005’s Cave-written film The Proposition, for the next installment in Cave’s screenwriting career: Death of a Ladies’ Man. According to various reports, The Proposition’s Ray Winstone plays the film’s protagonist, a sex-addicted traveling salesman who takes his son on a road trip after his wife commits suicide. Cheery! Production began in September.
Nick Cave dates:
11-09 Nurnberg, Germany - Meister
11-10 Stuttgart, Germany - Liederhalle
11-11 Mainz, Germany - Phoenixhalle
11-13 Vienna, Austria - Konzerthaus
11-14 Bonn, Germany - Beethovenhalle
11-17 Zurich, Switzerland - Kongresshaus
11-19 Helsinki, Finland - Finlandia Hall
11-20 Riga, Latvia - Arena
11-22 Dresden, Germany - Kulturplast
Stream: Grinderman: No Pussy Blues [MySpace]
