Solid focus on it around the 1:40 mark.
Jan 272012
Ninebullets Radio is a radio extension of the blog ninebullets.net that airs every Thursday night in Tampa, Florida on WMNF 88.5 FM at 10pm Eastern. The show is archived for one week after it’s original air date and is available for streaming here. Also, don’t forget to head over to Facebook and like the Ninebullets Radio page.
Below is the playlist for January 26, 2012
01. Todd Farrell – Ninebullets Radio Intro
02. Lucero – Sometimes
03. The Porter Draw – Athens
04. Matt Woods – Johnny Ray Dupree
05. Arliss Nancy – Mountain State
06. Lydia Loveless – Bad Way
07. Scott H. Biram – Draggin’ Down The Line
08. Kill County – Brown Lee
09. Possum Jenkins – Swinging Door
10. Craig Finn – Terrified Eyes
11. Sordid Humor – Hat Song
12. Day Of The Outlaw – What I Want
13. I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch In The House – Bad Days Ahead
14. The Creak – This Weekend
Bold = Request
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Episode 56: aired 01.26.2012
Jan 262012
They say music soothes the savage beast, but I’d beg to differ when it comes to one Col. J.D. Wilkes. And I’d venture a guess that anyone who’s been to a Legendary Shackshakers show and seen him go from pre-show cordial, mild-mannered J.D. to snot launchin’, pube tossin’ J.D. once the music starts is likely to agree.
So, what do you do when it’s the music that feeds your inner beast?
Go lo-fi, young man. Go lo-fi.
The Dirt Daubers are Col. J.D. Wilkes, wife Jessica Wilkes and LSS bassist Mark Robinson. Their latest release, Wake Up Sinners!, offers JD a perfect chance to play Dr. Jekyll to his Shackshaker Mr. Hyde. Thirteen songs that would, if music had an instagram app, have the scratchy sepia filter all over them. And you’d need the filter, not for lack of authenticity, but for lack of it having being recorded 70 years ago like it should have been. Unlike their debut, Wake Up Sinners! skates a thin line between being a sound all their own and being LSS minus electricity, and Mr. Robinson joining them for this album has made that line ever thinner. That said, for every “The Devil Gets His Due” moment where you could be convinced this is the Shackshakers performing an acoustic show in someone’s backyard, there’s an “Angel Along The Track” moment where J.D. and crew emerge from under the LSS shadow. The standout track on this cd has to be their cover of the old Lulu Belle and Scotty single, “Single Girl”, as it just fits this sound so perfectly.
I offer no hesitation in labeling this cd as Essential Listening, as I think it takes the classic country sound and adds enough modernization and gloss to it to make it attractive to the average passerby without spoiling any of its integrity.
The Dirt Daubers – The Devil Gets His Due
The Dirt Daubers – Angel Along The Tracks
The Dirt Daubers – Single Girl
The Dirt Daubers’ Official Site, The Dirt Daubers on Facebook, The Dirt Daubers on Spotify, Buy Wake Up Sinners! (for $5.00)
I don’t think it’s any secret that we’re big ol’ fans of Arliss Nancy here in the 9b camp and I am more than happy to do everything I can to help these guys be heard by every single pair of ears in the whole world. So, I obviously jumped on the opportunity to post a new song faster than Nicolas Cage jumps on a bad movie script.
This track is from the upcoming Arliss Nancy album, Simple Machine, due out on Suburban Home Records in March. I don’t wanna review the album now but I will say this, March will likely see the best Suburban Home Records release of the year. It’s that good.
St. Forgot also features Lizzie Huffman, Jon Snodgrass and Micah Schnabel on guest vocals. Enjoy and make sure to tune into Ninebullets Radio tonight where we’ll play another, completely different, new song from the album.
Jan 252012
Doing a little research on Lana Del Rey (admittedly, I’d never heard of her until her SNL appearance), it’s become 100 percent evident that she’s a complete creation by her record label.
That said, I like her album. It’s not gonna make my “Best Of The Year” list or probably even be in my CD rotation in two months, but that doesn’t mean I don’t like it in this moment. I guess I like it in the same way I liked the Gaga album with “Poker Face” on it and the last Katy Perry album neither of which can I remember the album titles without the aid of Google. But hey, it’s pop music and pop music has, since the dawn of radio, been a disposable art form.
But back to Del Rey.
Knowing that she’s a complete fabrication, is it okay to like her CD? Knowing that everything about her was designed and engineered to appeal to us, is it still okay to enjoy the CD on a sonic basis?
Really. I am asking you.
It brings the whole McDonald’s Chicken McNugget versus McRib debate to mind for me.
I know the McNugget is a piece of food engineered in a lab to appeal to my primitive tastebuds-to-brain highway. Despite knowing this, I’ll eat them from time to time and I’ll admit it — they’re fucking delicious. The McRib on the other hand — same scenario but I’ll go hungry before I’d eat a McRib. What’s the difference? I can’t say for sure. Perhaps it’s the vulgarity of the fake rib bones in the McRib that turn me off. The arrogance to not only feed us this patty meat conglomerate, but to then stamp a fucking bone into it and call it ‘rib.’ Point is, in the end, neither is that different and yet, I’ll accept one while getting queasy at the other.
These are the things I contemplate over my morning coffee.
