Tylor and the Train Robbers
Best of the Worst Kind
(self)

Old-West Americana that surrounds with such naturalness, you almost don't notice until deep into it how well its elements mesh. 

Recommended: "Hide Your Goat," "Lost and Lonely Miles," "The Ballad of Black Jack Ketchum," "Before It's Too Late," "Fumblin' For Rhymes," "Good At Bad News," "Pave Your Way"

Audio (scroll down): "Hide Your Goat"
https://www.tylorandthetrainrobbers.com/?fbclid=IwAR2zydzSVGueS3RiK6T3jFMbumGh-0NaoJ5SHeFNKjotfiyNYIuXuZsrHt4


https://www.tylorandthetrainrobbers.com/#home-section

https://www.facebook.com/tylorandthetrainrobbers/



https://kgmusicpress.com/tylor-the-train-robbers-press-release

Jersey Swamp Cats
Go Cat Go!
(self)

Dig: Effusive romps that no shark-skinned, sideburned Gleeby could sit out. Eminently solid rhythms buoy swinging guitar and hep voice to hot/cool accomplishment. 

Recommended: "Jump, Jive, and Wail," "Cupcake," "Blue Monday," "Tootie Ma Is a Big Fine Thing," "I Get Evil," "Shiny Gray Corvette"

Video: "Jump, Jive, and Wail"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdqMq08_OLI



https://www.facebook.com/Jersey-Swamp-Cats-181307138936305/

https://www.reverbnation.com/jerseyswampcats



https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/jerseyswampcats

Los RIPpers MX
La Voz de los Muertes
(self / Sureste Records)

Only after passing to the dark side can souls truly know the ecstasies and atrocities that swell its every second. Should anyone dare to glimpse, this accommodates exquisitely.

Recommended: "Yo Soy la Muerte," "El Horror Ya Comenzo," "Danze Macabra," "Mors Et Vita," "La Que No Debio Ser"

Video: "Yo Soy la Muerte" and "Danze Macabra" live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JjSEye5pSI


https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/losrippersmx3

https://losrippers.bandcamp.com/album/la-voz-de-los-muertos-ep-2016?fbclid=IwAR37yAhQZ3GppfYGNpaxUNRQaai-m-f9mg9q3Kd7enAPuC-6tUSW36OcHC0


https://www.facebook.com/suresterecordsmx/


https://www.amazon.com/Voz-los-Muertos-Explicit/dp/B07JM389Z2


https://soundcloud.com/hiram-bolio-s/sets/los-rippers-la-voz-de-los

The Don Diego Trio
Live From Austin
(El Toro Records)

That the unvarnished riff-bop churned by this rangy, whip-crack Texas roots-trio is sometimes familiar should be counted as a credit. It's not easy to faithfully interpret the traditional sounds of a culture while imprinting them with one's own features. And to do that, this well, is not something heard every day.

Recommended: "Rolling Wheel," "Django From Twango," "Truck Drivin' Daddy," "Loves the Rain," "My Window Faces the South," "I Didn't Walk the Line," "Austin"

Video: "Rolling Wheel" (live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd0c5IIBv-8


https://diegocaster0.wixsite.com/dondiegotrio?fbclid=IwAR3eeIB3NrfQCcmSN-sqYh4liB_eGX3ObYHL95b6b2Gj8GSbA2c3jESrRKE


https://www.facebook.com/dondiegoproject/


https://www.eltororecords.com/New-Products/THE-DON-DIEGO-TRIO-GREETINGS-FROM-AUSTIN-LP::428.html?MODsid=sdqcld6vbjvqchfsog5sjdo8d0

Elvis Presley
Greatest Hits
(Public Domain / Vintage Jukebox)

Library shelves teem with books telling of a Tennessee truck-driving kid who, when Ike looked out on Pennsylvania Avenue, walked into a one-lung studio and set the woods on fire. 

Practically of its own volition, the electrical vibrancy within him laced together rural rhythmic elements like hillbilly, gospel, blues, and boogie woogie. The new and bold creature relegated to passe status all that had preceded.

It's probable young Elvis was that afternoon more interested in making a few extra bucks than inventing something revolutionary. But here we are. 

Recommended: "That'a All Right," "Paralyzed," "(You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care," "Got a Lot O Livin' To Do," "I Want To Be Free," "(Let Me Be ) Your Teddy Bear," "A Mess A Blues," "All Shook Up," "Baby Let's Play House," "Don't Be Cruel," "Good Rockin' Tonight," "Hard Headed Woman," "Heartbreak Hotel," "Hound Dog," "I Got a Woman," "I Got Stung, "It's Now Or Never," "Jailhouse Rock," "Love Me Tender"

Video: "That's All Right Mama" (live, 1954 Louisiana Hayride)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxHmj7jQaIQ



https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/elvispresley16

Ken Curtis
Ranch House Party Favorites
(Kit Fox Records)

Western Swing jewels of timeless worth, lent tranquil assurance with good-humor peeks by a talent whose praises merit song long after the cows have come home. 

These seven tracks were preserved from the 1946 Ranch House Party radio show, and also feature Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage, The Plainsmen, and Art Wenzel and His Ragtime Cowboys.

Recommended: "Ship Me Out By Saddle," "Singing On the Trail," "Strawberry Blonde On the Strawberry Roan," "I'm Heading For the Great Divide," "Ida-Ho"

Video: "Singing On the Trail"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3SkTHWW-_o


https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/kencurtis#

P. Paul Fenech
The F Files
Happy Halloween V
(Mutant Rock Records)

Those shrewd enough to snatch up both these 2018 releases needn't fret over track listings. Each cut deliciously portrays the chin-high inhumanity, diabolical predilections, and screeching metallic uproar that made Psychobilly creator Fenech both a lurid legend and the object of much wishful emulation. 

Recommended (F Files): "What's in the Basket?," "Raging Thunder," "The Multiple Deaths of Pichina," "Who's Laughing Now?," "Love Charms," "Off the Chain," "Voodoo Man"

Video: "What's In the Basket?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkSGsQFAnCA


Recommended (Happy Halloween V): "Midnight Monsters Hop," "Werewolves With Motorcycles On Speed," "Halloween Stomp (Graveyard Stomp)," "Let's Go Play At the Myers House," "Graveyard," "Wombie Zombie," "Surf Monster"

Video: "Midnight Monsters Hop"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7_MlpG6RiY



https://www.facebook.com/ppaulfenechofficial/

https://www.facebook.com/MutantRockRecords/

http://www.mutantrockrecords.com/



https://www.amazon.com/F-Files-Explicit-P-Paul-Fenech/dp/B079R7V22V

https://open.spotify.com/album/0sn1Qi68QSpQvpTea61q8G




https://www.amazon.com/Happy-Halloween-P-Paul-Fenech/dp/B07JR8C8CG

https://open.spotify.com/album/4yLv6P85OeVgEEzq5gb325