The Crosskeys Inn c.1654 Ireland's Oldest thatched pub and famous traditional music venue.
I'll be here in human form. Sometimes I'll play.

The Crosskeys Inn c.1654 Ireland's Oldest thatched pub and famous traditional music venue.
I'll be here in human form. Sometimes I'll play.

The Crosskeys Inn c.1654 Ireland's Oldest thatched pub and famous traditional music venue.
I'll be here in human form. Sometimes I'll play.

Asheville's best sounding brewery

Harvey: "I want to play the piano the way Link Wray plays the guitar"

Spinning tall tales of folklore, myth, urban legend and conspiracy theory through the kaleidoscope eye of soul, rock & roll and pre-war r&B, Harvey McLaughlin’s piano playing (and guitar slinging) antics have been ever present in the San Antonio music scene for the better part of the last twenty years. Be it in the dark instrumental horror surf outfit, the Sandworms (2008-2015); the jump blues psychobilly extravaganza of the Hares (2012-2016); or, more recently, joining the legendary Austin/SA cowpunk ensemble, the Hickoids – McLaughlin’s raucous style and swagger spreads wide.

Thy Burdens Tour
Doom Ribbons on BandCamp

THY BURDENS, new Drunken Prayer album, is co-produced with Drive-By Truckers' Matt Patton and released on Dial Back Sound of Water Valley, Mississippi. 
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  Thy Burdens is a natural evolution of the Drunken Prayer catalog. The album is an homage to the fiery, sublime music of the church that means so much to the musicians who worked on it. Musically it’s hard country-soul with horns, shouting and a lot of groove. The songs vary between the evergreen and the obscure. Represented here are tributes across the landscape: Thomas Dorsey, Martha Carson, Snooks Eaglin, Ralph Stanley, The Zion Travelers, Leon Payne, The Dixie Hummingbirds, Hank Williams, Odetta, Dylan, and traditionals that are too old to credit.

   The project was spearheaded by Drive-By Truckers’ bassist Bobby Matt Patton who cut his teeth playing in fiery Pentecostal church bands around north Alabama, and Morgan Geer (Drunken Prayer) who learned a lot of the hymns they recorded from his great grandmother and father in Mobile, AL.

    “People need to hear the gospel of Jesus now more than ever. If it’s being left to folks like us to spread it, something has gone wrong.”

A Scar Is Born  "The Bohannons are one of Chattanooga’s finest exports, who make heavy rock ’n’ roll that’s equal parts Motörhead and Neil Young"

Small festival for a dearly departed.