JD Wilkes & The Dirt Daubers (2013) -Wild Moon

Artist: JD Wilkes & The Dirt Daubers
Albums: Wild Moon
Release date: 2013
Quality: mp3
CBR 320
Size: 88 MB  

“The Dirt Daubers were formed by Legendary Shack Shakers front man, artist, director and country punk pioneer J.D. Wilkes in 2009 with his wife Jessica. Wilkes’ “gothic preacher” persona and frantic blues harmonica whips ‘Wild Moon’ into a frenzy, trading lead vocal duties with his feminine foil. J.D. and Jessica are joined by electric guitarist Rod Hamdallah and drummer Preston Corn. Smoky baritone sax grooves are provided by Tom Waits’ sideman Ralph Carney, with piano played by Wilkes himself – delving deeper into the bluesy recesses of American music. Jessica emotes pained lyrics about life, love and loss on tunes like “No More My Love” and “Apples and Oranges,” while J.D. continues his southern storytelling style on “Angel Crown” and the title track. Says J.D., “The band might have come “down from the mountain” (only to land square in the Mississippi Delta!) but the heart and soul of the Dirt Daubers remain intact.” © the Dirty Daubers 


 


 

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Those Poor Bastards (2012) -Behold The Abyss

Artist:  Those Poor Bastards

Albums: Behold The Abyss

Release date:  2012

Quality: mp3 VBR

Size:  73 MB

“Tribulation Recording Company proudly presents its first ever album-novel set! The book (sold separately) is entitled "The Terrible Tale of Edgar Switchblade," and tells the story of a religiously obsessed and mentally disturbed bounty hunter born with cloven hooves. Together with his faithful horse Old Red, they befriend and destroy werewolves, ghosts, prostitutes and other strange creatures.

The accompanying album, "Behold The Abyss," explores the themes of the novel and expands upon several key events. The instrumentation is sparse, broken and filled right up to the brim with misery and ugliness.

When combined, the book and album present a brutal and hopeless picture of humankind's lonely pursuit of spiritual and earthly desires.” ©

Graveyard Train - 3 albums

Artist:   Graveyard Train
Albums: The Serpent And The Crow / The Drink The Devil And The Dance / Hollow
Released: 2008 / 2010 / 2012
Quality: mp3 CBR 320 Size: 106 / 140 / 100 MB

 ”Graveyard Train are a six piece collective from Melbourne Australia. The initial idea was for six men to sing in baritone about Werewolves, Vampires, Ghosts and the like over frenetic foot stomping country music. A wacky idea that worked and instantly collected fans across the globe. In a song writing sense Graveyard Train are storytellers who revel in the dark or macabre. Now, like any virus, Graveyard Train’s music evolved into something much richer, forceful and potent. Banjos, dobros as well as their untraditional hammer and chain have carried the intensity of their notorious live shows through the US, Canada, UK, Europe and of course all over Australia. The legions of the infected fans are growing. They’re instantly at home on any stage and consistently win over incredibly diverse audiences – from the neck tattooed rockabilly in Sydney to the farmer in Tamworth to the derelict punk in Belgium or the hippie in Toronto, everyone ends up singing along. Graveyard Train are not a country band; they are not a folk band; they are not punk band; they are not a vocal harmony band they are not a psychedelic band. They are all of those things and more; genuinely a band like no other that you have seen.” ©

 

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Holly Golightly feat. The Brokeoffs (2012) -Long Distance

Artist: Holly Golightly feat. The Brokeoffs
Albums: Long Distance
Date of release: 2012
Quality: mp3 CBR 320
Size: 78 MB

”‘Long Distance’ is a new album only in name, as it contains re-recordings of songs from her solo output including covers of some of her favourite artists by popular request from her fans. Holly herself stated “I have picked some of my original band favourites and recorded this collection for old and new fans alike. The highlight for me was the chance to re-record ‘(You Ain’t) No Big Thing,’ the fantastic 1966 Sam and Dave classic that I first started performing live in 1995. It’s one of my all time top tunes, along with ‘My Love Is,’ the fabulous Little Willie John number, which we’ve given a wistful lone banjo accompaniment this time around.”.FULL REVIEW

Cowboy Junkies (2012) -The Nomad Series Vol.4: The Wilderness

Artist: Cowboy Junkies
Album: The Nomad Series Vol. 4: The Wilderness
Release Date: March 2012
Quality: mp3 CBR 320
Size: 97 MB

”The title, The Wilderness, in some odd way seemed to define what these songs were actually "about": fragility, emptiness, loneliness, beauty, chance, loss, desperation, the delicate balancing act that makes up a life. They are about being lost in the wilderness of age, the wilderness of parenthood, in the wilderness of just trying to find meaning and substance, happiness and truth in one's day to day life. They are about standing alone in middle of it all, breathing in the cold still air and wondering.” ~ Michael Timmons, Cowboy Junkies

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No Blues - 4 albums

Artist: No Blues
Albums: Farewell Salabiye / Ya Dunya + Black Cadillac EP / Lumen / Hela Hela
Released: 2005 / 2007 / 2009 / 2010
Quality: mp3 CBR 320
Size: 77 + 110 + 118 + 117 MB

No blues is a unique project which explores the connection between two musical worlds: americana and Arabic music.
Both folk-blues and the Arabic taqsim (the improvised interplay without a fixed rhythm) are exceptionally suited for storytelling; the former in a somewhat rawer way, the latter mostly lyrical and melodic. In the same way as Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie documented their era in the early 20th century with their songs, the instrumentalist is the torchbearer of a centuries-old tradition in the virtually unwritten Arabic music culture. Traditional Arabic music differs from other music cultures in the way in which the music scale is subdivided. Thus the music can adopt forms that are nearly impossible in the western octave system.
In the No blues sessions the musicians soon succeeded in establishing a singular integration of folk-blues and Arabic music. A cross-breeding of Americana and Arabic music, we call Arabicana. Songs about ordinary folks, love and sadness, played and sung in the tradition that is characteristic for folk-blues as well as Arabic traditional music. ©

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The Dirt Daubers - 2 albums

Artist: The Dirt Daubers
Album: The Dirt Daubers / Wake Up Sinners
Released: 2009 / 2011
Quality: mp3 VBR ~160 / CBR 320
Size: 88 MB

”J.D. Wilkes is a man of many talents: He’s helmed the Legendary Shack Shakers for the last decade-and-a-half, played harmonica with the likes of Merle Haggard, and earned the title of Kentucky colonel. Apparently, though, he didn’t feel like he was busy enough already, so he went ahead and created the Dirt Daubers in 2009. It’s a project that satisfies Wilkes’ more traditionalist side; whereas the Legendary Shack Shakers deal more in psychobilly and punk-blues, the Dirt Daubers—Wilkes, his wife Jessica, and Shack Shakers standby Mark Robertson—stick to a more rootsy bluegrass sound.”MORE

Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs (2011) -No Help Coming

Artist: Holly Golightly
Albums: No Help Coming
Date of release: May 2011
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Size: 226 MB

Holly Golightly was born in London and named after the heroine in Truman Capote’s novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s. She fell under the spell of American roots music the minute she heard her first Stax single and started her musical career playing guitar and singing in punk bands like Thee Headcoatees. Golightly started recording her own albums in the mid-‘90s, drawing on the American singles in her massive collection for influence. She was particularly taken with gospel, blues, and other styles of music from the American South, as evidenced by her original songs, which have a strong retro feel. In 2005, Golightly started performing as a duo with Lawyer Dave, a Texas born one-man band that plays guitar, drums, and occasionally the banjo. No Help Coming is the fourth album they’ve cut as a duo, with Golightly singing and Dave acting as another vocalist and backup band.

On stage, Dave is impressive as he plays drums and cymbals with various foot pedals and wails on slide guitar. It’s natural to think there’s been a bit of overdubbing on the record, although the liner notes are mum on this aspect of the recording process. Still, the duo is responsible for every note on the album, and they make an impressive amount of rhythmic lo-fi noise, emulating the sound of the blues, country, and early rock oldies that inspired their songwriting.

“Burn O’ Junk Pile Burn” opens with a clattering of junkyard percussion and a spooky slide guitar figure from Dave that intensifies the song’s cryptic lyric, the story of a woman trying to scrape by on nothing much. The tune’s vaguely Middle Eastern feel brings to mind the Coasters’ “Little Egypt.” The country blues of the Chess era are the obvious inspiration for “Get Out My House”, a variation on the traditional and oft-covered “Rollin’ and Tumblin’” sporting a catchy chorus and delivered with a jubilantly ragged energy. Dave sings lead on “You’re Under Arrest”, a rocking country-blues tune that details an arrest for drunk driving with plenty of dark humor and a great twang-heavy guitar solo full of distorted chords and gritty bent notes. Golightly takes vocals on the sultry, simmering “The Whole Day Long”, a bluesy song of infidelity. Dave’s erratic slide guitar accents intensify the tune’s sexual tension, while the lyrics are sung at a slow deliberate pace, making every word simmer with a combination of guilt and sinful satisfaction.

The album closes with two covers, Wavy Gravy’s “L.S.D. (Rock ‘n’ Roll Prison)” and “Lord Knows We’re Drinking”, a tune made popular by country crooner Whispering Bill Anderson. “L.S.D. (Rock ‘n’ Roll Prison)” is sung by Lawyer Dave and opens with an impressive psychedelic guitar freak-out, then morphs into a country murder ballad. Dave sings the tune with a cracked, shaky voice that sounds almost comedic, rather than dramatic, which was probably Wavy Gravy’s intent.

Golightly and Lawyer Dave sing “Lord Knows We’re Drinking” as a duet, and it’s one of the album’s most cohesive moments. Anderson’s morality tale is a variation on the Biblical admonition “Judge not lest ye be judged,” a reminder that heaven will welcome all sinners, be they drinkers or teetotalers. The tune has a clever lyric, underlining the problems songwriters face when trying to recreate the feel of yesterday’s hits, and a melody that jumps out at you with a strong tension and release structure. It stands as one of the best songs on the record, with an effortless flow that many of the duo’s originals lack. For fans of retro sounding lo-fi blues, however, there is much enjoyment to be found on the entirety of No Help Coming.©

Phantom Of The Black Hills (2010) -Born To Gun

Artist: Phantom Of The Black Hills
Album: Born To Gun
Released: 2010
Quality: mp3 CBR 320
Size: 77 MB


Whether your devotion is to doom or destiny, the Phantom of the Black Hills will take you into a world where banjo pickers moonlight as murderers and a wanton fiddler takes his hat off to no one. On the follow-up to acclaimed debut Ghosts, each song is a roll of the bones. Whether you call it Hellbilly, Doom-Country, or Cowpunk, listen to Born To Gun for yourself and you ll know you ve never heard anything like it before...

16 Horsepower (1995) -Sackcloth'n'Ashes

Artist: 16 Horsepower
Album: Sackcloth’n’Ashes
Released: 1995
Quality: lossless (FLAC tracks) / mp3 CBR 320
Size: 292 / 100 MB

Driven by off-kilter fiddles, a bizarre sense of humor, and punk-inflected country-rock, 16 Horsepower's second album, Sackcloth 'n' Ashes, is a weirdly captivating listen. Nearly every song is a strange, backwoods fable, delivered with clever irony that never undercuts the essential, disturbing intentions of the songs. It's not for everybody, but for alt-country fans tired of Gram Parsons homages, Sackcloth 'n' Ashes is a welcome listen. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

Hyacinth House - 2 albums

Artist: Hyacinth House
Albums: Hyacinth House / Black Crow’s Country
Released: 2005 / 2008
Quality: mp3 VBR ~200
Size: 69 + 82 MB

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Various Artists (2001) -Hillbilly Gospel 1948-1958

Artist: various
Album: Hillbilly Gospel 1948-1958
Released: 2001
Quality: mp3 CBR 320
Size: 137 MB

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