Bloodshot Bill at Hotrod Hootenanny 2008
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Attack of the One-Man Bands is exactly that, 58 different one-man bands spread over two discs of raw, crude, and fascinatingly brilliant blasts of sonic madness, most of it so ragged and urgent that it makes vintage punk sound like Air Supply. So unhinged that it's probably a serious health risk, this set delivers cut after cut of glorious bedlam with all the subtlety of an amplified jackhammer set loose in a glass house, and anyone sane should probably hate it, but like a child's tantrum, it's impossible to ignore, and like the child that throws that tantrum, it's impossible not to love. Each of these one-man bands is currently active, and while most are decidedly lo-fi, even the ones who wandered into real studios seem to treat them like giant boom boxes, creating a clatter and din that shoves the needle into the red from note one. While a good deal of what is here is vicious punk rockabilly like Phillip Roebuck's crude, spare, and dangerously kinetic "Jackass Blues" or Pete Yorko & the One Man Music Band's "Like Me" assault, some of it, like Royer's One Man Band's version of the fiddle classic "Train on the Island" or 1Man Banjo's deconstruction of "Mole in the Ground" (simply called "Mole" here), is seriously bent and skewed bluegrass mountain music. Trainwreck Washington's banjo piece called "Walked All Night" sounds like an old wax cylinder field recording, and feels like it was recorded a hundred years ago. Uncle Butcher's "No Judge, No Trial" is as raw and frightening as a running chain saw thrown on a feather bed, chickens flying everywhere, as they say. Then there's the Amazing Elephant Man's primal "Can't Go Outside," which is literally a child's frustrated rant given rhythm and electricity. Scary, unsettling, fascinating, delightful, vital, urgent and insistent, these 58 tracks are somehow -- for all their abrasiveness -- oddly comforting. Just like that one vigilant dog barking away relentlessly down the street late at night, it means someone is watching after all, and they ain't gonna keep quiet about it, even if the rest of the world is trying its best to sleep.
~ Steve Leggett
Al Foul - Performing at Plush in Tucson, Arizona.
Dead Elvis - Live @ DBStudio Utrecht - The Netherlands. 15 November 2007
Attack of the One-Man Bands
Various Artists
Disc 1
Tracks:
1. I Know I'm Gonna Die Tonight (But I Don't Care) - Al Foul
2. Benn Tellin' You Lies - Bloodshot Bill
3. Jackass Blues - Phillip Roebuck
4. Milwaukee Blues - Rollie Tussing
5. If You Love Me - Lonesome Joseph
6. You Can't Fool Me - Slim Sandy
7. Walkin' and a-Steppin' in the Fire - King Louie
8. Howlin' - Haunted George
9. Stay Out and Down - Sachtrash
10. Troublin' Time - Fredovitch One Man Band
11. Mole - 1Man Banjo
12. I Fuckin' Suck (In G Maj) - Toothless George
13. Train on the Island - Royer's One Man Band
14. Long Gone, Dead and Done - Dead Elvis/The One Man Grave
15. Wild Party - Mr. Bonz One Man Band
16. Introducing Chuck Violence - Chuck Violence
17. Lust - Dennis Hopper Choppers
18. Rhythm & Soul - Bram Riddlebarger & His Lonesome Band
19. Walked All Night - Trainwreck Washington
20. Preacher's Daughter - Ghostwriter
21. Que Viva la Chava - Esmerelda Strange
22. Lying in State - J. Marinelli
23. Too Much Bad in My Blood (To Be Good) - Big One Man Band
24. When You're Far Away - Long Boy Larsen
25. I'm Buried Alive - Mississippi Groover
26. Drinking Every Night - Twang Tango
27. Purgatory Rock - The Slow Poisoner
28. Kyleeee - Stringybark McDowell
Disc 2
Tracks:
01. BBQ - Hang One
02. Jeffrey Novak - Nothing to Do
03. El Paso Hot Button - Snake Boy Lives in the Mississippi
04. Jensen, Skip & His Shakin' Fee - Abscond
05. Guitar Fucker - Fuck Me I'm Poor
06. Reverend Beat-Man & the Un-Bel - Bloddy () Cunt
07. John Schooley - Rock N' Roll Party with the One Man Band
08. Fabulous Go-Go Boy From Alabama - You Got to Love
09. King Automatic - I Don't Give a Fuck
10. Ottoboy The One Man Trash Band - Lo Ride
11. Reverend J. Brennan - The Lord Told Me You Got Fat
12. Feeling Of Love - Revenge
13. Urban Junior - Music for the Asses
14. Limbs - Bad Anna
15. Uncle Butcher - No Judge, No Trial
16. Junior Disorder - Angry Heart
17. Sheriff Perkins - Black Bowtie
18. Scott H. Biram - Plow You Under
19. Rod, Margaret Doll - Who's Gonna Rub Me
20. Almighty Do Me A Favor - You're Wrong
21. Lone Bird - Business
22. Yorko, Pete & The One Man Musi - Like Me
23. Johnny Lowebow - Little Darling
24. Reverend Deadeye - Hellfire Down
25. Rocket Craig - Alien Novelty Song
26. Mosquito Bandito - Laser Beams
27. O Lendario Chucrobillyman - Guitarra Míssil
28. Amazing Elephant Man - Can't Go Outside
29. One Hand Man - So Alone
30. Johnny Cancer - Do Your Own Thing
Enjoy!!
Both Discs Here!!
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