This South-London honky-tonk band was able disturbed me
with messages through various channels within a very short time
about their first single, called Entitled to Nothing

For example they wrote that „a blend of South-London scuzz incorporating elements country, electronic, post-punk and lo-fi. File next to bands such as Goat Girl, Meatraffle, Warmduscher, peeping Drexels and the Rebel”, but also Country Teasers. „Using vintage drum machines, synthesizers, guitars, bass and male/female vocals.” And thye are really just „like a drunken boat.” With Keel Her in the title song. She nowadays also appeared in other bands as Bin Bags, Administrators and maybe more.

But now I ask Jim from Honkies

– Hey! What is your temper?

– My temper is dependent on two things: bullishly high crypto-currency share prices and Hank Williams cover requests.

– Anyway what things annoy you in the weekdays?

– Lesser Honkies gigs, lesser Honkies activity.

Next gig on 20 July at the Bible Club in London

Anyway the 4th commandment of crypto currency trading: Don’t Panic.

In 1992 when the coach of the gothic country band Denver Gentlemen temporarily broke down David Eugene Edwards went forward with 16 Horsepower, while Slim Cessna has found his Auto Club, a christian, but apocalyptic country band. And so punk, that Jello Biafra signed them for his label Alternative Tentacles. (For what he was critizised by the dumb punk community.) But the new album ‘The Commandments According To SCAC,’ will be released soon by their own label SCACUNINCORPORATED in the US, and Glitterhouse Records in Europe.

The 7th: You Shall Not Commit Adultery

& the 4th Commandment: Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy

according to SLIM CESSNA’S AUTO CLUB

Bloodshot is a Chicagoan independent record label where punk, country, soul, pop, bluegrass, blues and rock’n’roll mix and mingle and mutate. One, that is six, or rather seven from their brand new realeses

Bloodshot Six Pack to Go

Six 7″ singles featuring drinking songs. A collection where punk, country, roots and good times meet with many covers. For example:

Dead Kennedys’ „Too Drunk To Fuck” by Nashville outsider Elizabeth Cook. Black Flag’s „Six Pack” by bluegrass road man Al Scorch. Merle Haggard’s „Drink Up and Be Somebody” by JP Harris & the Tough Choices. JP Harris (see the picture above) „plays Country Music. Not “Americana,” not “Roots,” or “Folk”. Pogues’ „If I Should Fall From Grace With God” by Deer Tick

The second track is a Bad Lovers’ song performed by Banditos.

Limited edition box set (1000 copies). First 500 copies feature special 7th single featuring Chicagoan Devil in a Woodpile and Tijuana Hercules…they call it a Chicago Sixpack. Drink It Up & Be Somebody!

On the basis of Lower Plenty’s songs I can think that Australia is somewhere in Scotland. Sweet songs for rainy, foggy, boring days. Perfect for the place that is called Lower Plenty (suburb of Melbourne).

from the album Life/Thrills on Bedroom Suck Records (Aus)

Suburban people! See John Waters’ films!

I know almost nothing about I Get Mynze. The members are from pop punk band Legendary Wings from Kalamazoo (Michigan), and they play excellent 80s-like lo-fi garage punk in the manner of Jay Reatard.

7″ EP on Pelican Pow Wow (US) and Red Lounge Records (Germany)

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The second album of the London based alt-country band Cat Meat, where “Phil’s primary influences are the alt-country of Wilco, the surrealist melancholia of Sparklehorse and experimental rock of Califone, though more than a hint of Captain Beefheart’s magisterial influence can be detected in the lyrics and song titles. Ian brings bluegrass chops and punk sensibilities in equal measure, whilst Barney’s slide and fingerstyle guitar reveal a love of the pre-war splendor of Mississippi John Hurt and Blind Willie McTell.” „Eldritch City Dwellers” is also free to download as their every recordings.

The band’s name keeps memory of a Montenegrin summer holiday.

American musician Bobby Bare, Jr. got a hard smack, and wrote his best album about it.   

Bobby is son of Grammy awarded country musician Bobby Bare, Sr. He was raised in strongly musical environment in Memphis. So much so that he was nominated for a Grammy at his age of 6 for a duet with his father “Daddy What If”. It was written by the family’s friend, Shel Silverstein. He made a huge impression on Bobby, Jr.’s song writing technique. Wrote with and had all his songs critiqued by him, till Silverstein passed on in 1999. “To take an idea and push it as far as you can and then push it a whole lot further” – was his ars poetica. Shel Silverstein was a poet, writer, singer/songwriter and cartoonist. For example he has written “25 Minutes to Go”, “A Boy Named Sue” and “The Ballad of Lucy Jordan”. The first two have become popular by Johnny Cash, the third was written for Dr. Hook, but also was recorded by Lee Hazelwood and Marianne Faithful. (Anyway he wrote the lyrics and music for most of the Dr. Hook songs.)

Thanks for these circumstances, his talent and the fate, “Undefeated” is the best album of Bobby Bare jr. so far. Thanks for The Fate above all. But “thanks” is maybe not the best phrase in this case. The fulfilled love, joy and happiness are never so stimulating to create master pieces* like desire, sadness, broken heart and trials. In his own words, this is a “pretty confessional”, “getting dumped” album about end of his relationship with the mother of his youngest child, or “My Baby Took My Baby Away”

And his ex-baby didn’t want to hear anything about his emotions. So it seemed the only way to tell her his feelings if he writes those to songs. Diverse moods and situations have inspired these various explicit songs. Almost all have a different kind of style. There’re danceable, almost new wave and old Americana tunes, a bit of ragtime, alternative country and rock. One of those is just like a Butthole Surfers song on this true adult oriented really alternative rock album. Unfortunately I can’t put it completely here.

Bobby Bare Jr.’s Young Criminals’ Starvation League – “Undefeated” LP, CD, digital on Bloodshot Records (USA). Young Criminals’ Starvation League is his ever-changing group of musicians, including members of Lambchop, My Morning Jacket and many more.

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* But the exception proves the rule. One of the best albums of all time, Histoire de Melody Nelson (1971) by Serge Gainsbourg is fruit of a fulfilled love.

Free Alt-Country from the Big Prairie of London

„Phil’s primary influences are the alt-country of Wilco, the surrealist melancholia of Sparklehorse and experimental rock of Califone, though more than a hint of Captain Beefheart’s magisterial influence can be detected in the lyrics and song titles. Ian brings bluegrass chops and punk sensibilities in equal measure, whilst Barney’s slide and fingerstyle guitar reveal a love of the pre-war splendor of Mississippi John Hurt and Blind Willie McTell”, but the time of the description Louisa wasn’t in the Cat Meat yet.

Free digital split single with their friend and collaborator Hephaestus P. Stormcloud. You can find more free stuff on their Bandcamp

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Gas Rag. Classic Scandinavian style hardcore from Midwest.

„Beats Off” mini LP on Beach Impediment (US) and Even Worse Records (Holland)

In 2010, San Marcos in Texas was listed in Business Week’s survey of the „Best Places to Raise your Kids.” Scott H. Biram, the Dirty Old One Man Band comes from here. „My music is the bastard child of Punk, Blues, Country, Hillbilly, Bluegrass, Chain Gang, Metal, and Classic Rock,” or in brief it’s „Depression Era Metal.” About love and jelaousy, alcohol and drugs, sin and forgiveness and similar stupid, but very important human affairs.

Nothin’ But Blood LP by Bloodshot Records

You can listen to the full album here

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Dirt Dress is a punk band in LA. I think their music is influenced by The Fall and Wire, and sometimes it reminds me the garage rock of Jack of Heart and JC Satán.

from split 7″ with Corners by Mono Records. You can listen to the Corners‘ song here. They’re a garage rock band with surfy guitar sound, piano and harmonica.

YOU OUGHT TO JUST BUY A GOOD GUITAR” or

Two important albums of alternative country
will be reissued on Nov 19 by Bloodshot Records

The Bottle Rockets’ debut from 1993,
and their next album, The Brooklyn Side from 1994.

The Bottle Rockets are pioneers of alt-country. The roots of this subgenre go back to the 80s. There were two bands in the Midwest, The Primitives played rockabilly, then punk, finally blues oriented fast garage rock; the Chicken Truck played outlaw country music. The two bands occasionally played together. The first band changed his name into Uncle Tupelo, and released his debut album in 1990. The ’No Depression’ would be the first „alternative country” labelled record. In same year the Chicken Truck split up, and the singer and guitarist, Brian Henneman became a roadie and guitar technician of Uncle Tupelo, but he also played on shows and records as a permanent guest. Furthermore a country cover band, the Coffee Creek was founded by U.T. and Brian, who after a successful solo single (backed by U.T. men and ex-Chicken Truck drummer) founded his own band with ex-C. T. members in 1992. The Bottle Rockets’ first album was released in the following year. And the end of beginning of alt-country in 1994 the Uncle Tupelo split into two part: Wilco and Son Volt.

But the pioneers of alt-country dispute that they discovered any singular thing: „we were just picking up the ball, starting with Woody Guthrie and on to the early ’60s and the Flying Burrito Brothers that we were influenced by. We didn’t start a genre. We contributed to a long line of fairly good music.” – said Mike Heidorn, the ex-drummer of Uncle Tupelo and Son Volt. Never mind, the alt-country is flourishing.

In one hand, the phrase shows the opposition to the Nashville dominated corporate country, in other hand marks the difference from traditional country style. There are various elements of rock and roll, rockabilly, punk, rock and blues mixing with country, like in the music of Bottle Rockets:

Stories about the blue-collar side of America on remastered two-CD reissue set with 19 previously unreleased tracks: Chicken Truck and acoustic demo versions, songs with Uncle Tupelo members from the pre-Bottle Rockets era, live and radio performances. The package consists of an 40-page booklet.

RATHER „THAN ANY OLD 1000 DOLLARS CAR”