Cash O'Riley

Booze, Lust, Lies & Heartache...Revisited   digital

(Rumble Road Records)

Initially issued in 2002, Cash's Booze again populates earways, now in fresh incarnation. Good ol' hayseed romping mashed into chipper with  outlawism and razor-ready Blues; what exits demands discernment. Select passages recall glorious half-moment before hillbilly heels were kicked up toward what local hands would term Rockabilly. Every love-lucky, back-country buck carries a homestyle dolly's curling b&w snap in his britches' bib pocket.

(All proceeds from digital sales go directly to worthy cause "Hobohemian" Cash.)

Recommended: "Send Along," "Big City Queen," "Everytime You Walk," "The Last Time," "I'll Be Gone," "I May Have," "Make You Cry," "Enough Beer"

Videos: "Big City Queen"   "Everytime You Walk"   "The Last Time"   "Enough Beer"

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Slim & the Gems

MotorV8or

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Cookin' with premium. Given sounds by which to gauge, Monroe Slim, Zen, and Rob seem not only to have a crusade before them - that being, to heft high the jukin' bop that has led generations of kicks-hunters to wildside manna - but are exactly the chromed lowriders to pull off that noble pursuit. All instruments seem set to 'Tear up' - fracture-perpetrators thrash 'em like they stole somethin'. Boss wailin', all the way to the passion pit on the outskirts of town. 

Recommended: "King of the Streets," "Too Old to Fight," "Ethyl," "Hillbilly Pimp," "Detroit Steel," "Weak in the Knees," "Baby Please Don't Go," "Locomotive," "Pocket Full of Smoke"

Videos: "King of the Streets" (live)   "Too Old to Fight"   "Ethyl" (live)   "Detroit Steel"

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Cash O'Riley

An account of life's beat-downs, buoyed across the honky tonk angel's face on the barroom floor by kick-pumped Country. Piano-pounding, dangerous drums, and truly cutthroat guitar have the back of weathered drawlings.

First issued in 2012 by American Wax Records. Rumble Road has wisely put it on 2026 shelves.

Video: "Jackson County Jail"

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Shane Vain and the Village Vandals

Rubber City Rumblebilly

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To quote Sir Cliff: "Ballads and Calypso have got nothin' on / real Country music that just drives along!" Carousing in these grooves is Rock'n'Roll all liquored-up and with eyes peeled for kicks. Paraded are devastations from the Akron combo's extant catalog, as well as just-out-of-wrapper "Can't Beat the House." Milquetoasts would scamper from this howl.

Recommended: "Hot Rod Big Rig," "Till That Moon Goes Down," "The Ballad of Large Marge," "It's Not Rocket Science," "How Many Times," "Three-Ton Jack," "Can't Beat the House"

Video: "Hot Rod Big Rig"

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