JOEY ALLCORN – ALL ALONE AGAIN

Aug 312009

Joey Allcorn has released a new album, All Alone Again. Back in 2006 I wrote about Joey’s debut album, 50 Years Too Late, and I described his sound as such, “…writes and performs songs that could have been played on the fabled stage of the Grand Ol’ Opry in it’s heydays at The Ryman. Classic country songs with steel guitars, fiddles, lyrics of heartbreak, heaven, hell, and all matters of turmoil in between.” The description still fits like a glove. Joey’s voice still sounds like a less road/drugs/whiskey/pills/pot/15 shows in 17 nights hell raising weary version of Hank III, and Joey still has a long line of broken-hearted nights to sing about.

I guess what I am saying is that not much has changed, and that’s just fine so far as I’m concerned. See, while Hank III seems to be chasing that Hellbilly sound like a 16 year chases skirts, he’s leaving a lot of us fans of his more classic country sound behind. Enter Joey Allcorn, who not only fills the hole, these day’s he’s probably doing it better. So good, in fact, I have no choice but to place All Alone Again on my Essential Listening list.

So, if you wanna hear some country music the way it used to be played, then buy All Alone Again.

Joey Allcorn – Honky Tonkin’ Ramblin’ Man
Joey Allcorn – Lonesome, Lovesick Man
Joey Allcorn – Honky Tonk Hell

Joey Allcorn’s Official Site, Joey Allcorn on myspace, Buy All Alone Again

SITE NEWS: NINEBULLETS.NET GETS FACEBOOKED

Aug 312009

We finally decided that the pesky little social media phenom that is Facebook wasn’t going anywhere and in order to keep up with the Joneses it was gonna need the support of ninebullets.

Never one to hold anybody back from their full potential, we joined the fledgling network.

So. Follow us and all that.

As a sign of solidarity I also joined the network. So, feel free to follow me as well.

NINEBULLETS.NET AUGUST PODCAST:

Aug 272009

Here we are. Another month, another podcast. Can you believe it’s been 6 months? Traffic on these is improving a little and that’s raised my spirits about doing them…I know I’m supposed to be all about doing them regardless of the amount of people who listen….and I will be, just as soon as the podcast’s monthly traffic gets in the same neighborhood as ninebullets.net’s daily traffic. That said, let’s talk about this month’s podcast.

The moment I sat down and started mapping out what songs I wanted to play this month I started getting excited. It quickly became obvious that this month’s song selection was gonna be the bomb. We got unreleased tracks from The Fox Hunt, Left Lane Cruiser, Carolyn Mark, Malcolm Holcombe, Pete Bernhard (Devil Makes Three) and Chuck Ragan, as well as newborn songs from Chad Price (Drag The River), Mat d. and the Profane Saints, The Builders and The Butchers, The Takers and Lonesome Wyatt (Those Poor Bastards) w/Rachel Brooke.

In the middle of the show I decided to do a set featuring bands who will be performing at Suburban Home‘s 14 Anniversary Weekend Party, which I’ll be attending in 15 days. Hopefully I’ll come back from it with some good stories, good pictures and a few interviews.

And that does it. I’m really happy with this month’s podcast and I think y’all will like it. Do me a favor, though. If you listen and you enjoy the show, please tell other people about it.

Thanks, everyone. ~Autopsy IV (twitter: @autopsy4)

Tracklisting:

  1. Adams House Cat – Nine Bullets [00.00.00]
  2. Autopsy IV Commentary [04.00.00]
  3. The Fox Hunt – It Suits Me [05.11.00]
  4. Carolyn Mark w/N.Q. Arbuckle – All Time Low [08.03.00]
  5. Lonesome Wyatt & Rachel Brooke – This Painful Summer [11.56.50]
  6. Autopsy IV Commentary [15.48.00]
  7. Chad Price – Cursed [17.30.00]
  8. Jon Snodgrass – Brave With Strangers [21.08.00]
  9. The Takers – Diamond Ring [24.14.00]
  10. Two Cow Garage – Swingset Assassin [27.36.00]
  11. Autopsy IV Commentary [30.28.00]
  12. Chris Knight – Highway Junkie [31.50.00]
  13. Malcolm Holcombe – A Bigger Plan [36.20.00]
  14. Deadstring Brothers – Sao Palo [39.16.00]
  15. Chuck Ragan – Let It Rain [45.04.00]
  16. Autopsy IV Commentary [47.34.00]
  17. Pete Bernhard – Townes [49.48.00]
  18. The Builders and The Butchers – Down in the Hole [53.54.00]
  19. Autopsy IV Commentary [57.40.00]
  20. Left Lane Cruiser – Black Lung [59.30.00]
  21. Mat D & The Profane Saints – Mudflap Mamma [63.54.00]
  22. The Drive-By Truckers – Play It All Night Long [67.02.00]


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SEBASTIAN BACH GOES COUNTRY:

Aug 272009

In a recent interview former Skid Row singer, Sebastian Bach, revealed that along with a new rock album he is prepping an album of country tunes. Says Bach, “I hate to use that word ‘country’ because people have a weird idea. To me, my idea of country is Neil Young ‘Old Man’, or Allman Brothers, or Willie Nelson ‘Whiskey River’ and stuff like that. I like outlaw country. I like the bad-ass Waylon Jennings coke country [laughs], Leon Russell with long hair, fucking partying [laughs].”

Here is a track he did last year:

Thoughts?

Tim Easton – Porcupine

Aug 262009

To say Tim Easton has spent the better part of the last decade “toiling” in relative obscurity would be stretching it – he records for New West, seems perennially omnipresent at SXSW and the Americana Music Conference, and counts Steve Earle and Lucinda Williams among his friends and fans – but Easton’s is not a name you hear mentioned in the same breath as Adams, Tweedy, Farrar and the like.

The cause? I suppose one could tab the general crapshoot nature of the music industry as partly to blame but the fact is, Easton had yet to make that career-defining record that anyone could point to when recommending Tim Easton to the uninitiated listener. Adams has Heartbreaker and Strangers Almanac to his credit, Tweedy’s got Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, and so on. Tim Easton has written a lot of great tunes, and made a couple of very good records, but there’s not one prevailing work that anyone could or would point to as “must-have Tim Easton.”

Easton’s new record, Porcupine, may change that discussion. If it is not “The” Tim Easton record, it’s certainly the closest he’s come yet to a streamlined, cohesive “artistic statement,” whatever that’s supposed to mean.

Put more simply, Porcupine is Easton’s best record, top-to-bottom. Easton vacillates deftly between a raspy, Dylanesque weeze and a slightly more tender, drawling vocal approach that vaguely reflects the Joshua Tree desert where Easton spends a good deal of time, his razor-sharp ruminations floating over jagged, jangly guitars and carefully revamped blues and folk licks.

If there is a defining theme to the records, it is found in a line from the chugging “Broke My Heart,” as Easton declares, “there’s only two things left in this world / love and the lack thereof.” Easton’s characters spend the majority of Porcupine in search of love, trudging their way through the lack thereof. It’s a broad landscape, but Easton has supplied a nice little soundtrack for the ride.

Tim Easton – Broke My Heart
Tim Easton – Baltimore

Tim Easton’s Official Site, Tim Easton on myspace, Buy Porcupine

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