old songs for young ears

I posted some videos a few months ago of the Hillgrass Bluebilly North American tour. Recently the guys just put out their first release, a 2 disc tribute to Hank Williams and Leadbelly titled "Hiram and Huddie". Below is a copy of the the article recently written in the Austin Chronicle.

THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE
OFF THE RECORD - AUSTIN POWELL
TITLE: LOST HIGHWAYS
PAGE 53 (at bottom)



Lost Highways
Primal roots purveyors Hillgrass Bluebilly Entertainment recently released Hiram and Huddie, a potent double-album tribute to Hank Williams and Lead Belly that features local favorites Scott H. Biram, Wayne "the Train" Hancock, and William Elliott Whitmore. "They were the first two that really introduced that darkness and those cold truths to American music," says the Bastrop-based HBE's Keith Mallette. The 20-song compilation is available at Yard Dog Gallery, where cover artist Jon Langford of the Mekons currently has an exhibit, but you can also score a copy on Thursday, Feb. 12, at Emo's, which hosts the Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band ("Rock Island Line"), along with local trailblazers Possessed by Paul James ("Bourgeois Blues"), and Tom VandenAvond ("I Can't Help It If I'm Still in Love With You"). Next up, Hillgrass Bluebilly is wrangling a double-barrel tribute to Johnny Cash and R.L. Burnside, while also pairing bluegrass patriarch Ralph Stanley & His Clinch Mountain Boys with original Delta bluesman T-Model Ford for a living legends showcase on March 17. "We feel like we're sitting on a real treasure here," Mallette concludes. "All of this is music is pure and from the heart. "



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House of Cthulu!!!!

finally a new ENGORGED record!!!  The Shotgun Gulch metal maniacs just released this info for the upcoming LP "House of Cthulu"

Engorged "House of Cthulhu" LP news and track listing!

Engorged is finally getting ready to hit the studio! After intensive rehearsals in their ocean floor citadel, Engorged has finally finished writing their new LP "The House Of Cthulhu" and begun recording, shooting for an early Summer 09 release on Tank Crimes Records! The LP will also feature terrifying all new artwork by the one and only Dennis Dread!

As fans who have caught Engorged live in the last few months can attest to, the new material is by far their most aggressive and lethal to date, combining the over the top death metal and thrash mixture of Engorged's last 3 lps, into a new, even more destructive sound, without losing the crazed Engorged edge that metal heads world wide have come to know and love. Cosmic horror set to speed metal tempos!

The track listing for "The House Of Cthulhu" at this time is:

1. No Sleep Till R'lyeh
2. Strikeforce : Cthulhu
3. Into The Vaults Of Yoh-Vombis
4. The Hound
5. Electric Executioner
6. Mysteries Of The Worm
7. Rats In The Walls
8. The Space Eaters
9. Return Of The Old Ones


Also, an exciting Engorged myspace feature! Engorged will be doing a fan interview on Feb 20th 2009. If you have any questions or advice you would like
to ask Engorged, submit them here to the Engorged myspace page before Feb 19th 2009.

Please submit your question to the "message" section, and title the subject as "fan questions".

Watch this space for more news as it develops, and prepare yourself to enter...
"The House Of Cthulhu"! Your mind may never be the same again...