The Excavators, A Brand New Side Project From The Fellas In Hellbound Glory

The Excavators album was recorded in a couple hours at someones house in Reno, NV sometime in late October of 2010. The Excavators consist of Leroy Virgil and Rico Peterson of Hellbound Glory, performing all tracks. All performances are raw and the recording techniques used are extremely primitive. The album comes out November 27th 2015 on Rusty Knuckles Music.

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1. Big Time
2. World Coming To An End
3. Feudin'
4. Working Hard A'int Hardly Workin
5. Another Dead Friend
6. The Repo Man
7. Stateline
8. The Black Mass
9. If The Good Lords A Good Ol' Boy
10. Bonus Track L.O.F.

Husky Burnette, Tales From East End Blvd: Goodbye Shore Road Tavern

Husky Burnette, Tales From East End Blvd: Goodbye Shore Road Tavern

Tales From East End Blvd:
Goodbye Shore Road Tavern

What a crazy, fun and emotional weekend Ive had with friends in Philadelphia PA. We were at a bar that all of us traveling musicians know, The Shore Road Tavern in Philly. We know it, we love it and if you're like me you can get sucked in here and never want to leave. I'm still here actually. I'm on tour right now but I keep coming back here on this run, using it as a central working point since there's an apartment above the bar that they use for the bands. Plus, it's just hard to leave this time. Last Friday night, March 27th 2015, was the bar's last public show. Very bittersweet. The line-up was Paul Waggener, Joshua Morningstar, Gallows Bound, Saint Christopher and then we did our set to close out the night. It was truly an amazing time. Wait, scratch out the word amazing...let's say "fucking magical". Even that doesn't describe it all that well. The owner, Mike Fiedler, celebrated the last show (which was also his birthday) with a smile on his face all night long. I think everyone in attendance had that smile. You could just feel the positivity in the room. Mike and his crew of misfit friends are the best of the best so you can't help but to smile and be happy while you're here. Their hospitality and loyalty make this place what it is. Couldn't ask for a better group of fans, friends and family.

The Big Lessons of Sturgill Simpson’s Success, From Saving Country Music

The Big Lessons of Sturgill Simpson’s Success, From Saving Country Music

Damn is it great to see Sturgill Simpson doing so well with all the accolades from his latest album. The bigger elements come from a few simple ingredients that he figured out how to mix up into a tasty stew. If you ever had the chance to see what he had cookin' in Sunday Valley, then you know the depths to which his catalog can traverse. Read more from the great write up on Saving Country Music below.

Hellbound Glory - Streets Of Aberdeen Is The Sleeper Hit of 2014

Leroy Virgil's songwriting for Hellbound Glory's - Streets of Aberdeen, feels as if it's torn straight from the dialogue of a gritty HBO series and the characters are about to walk directly into your life. This sense of immediacy, purpose and emotion scratches at the fragility of the human condition and we listen attentively for an affirmation of our own reality. Hellbound Glory is up for Song of The Year on Saving Country Music, so do them a favor and go share your opinion about how great, Streets of Aberdeen truly is. This is a sleeper hit of 2014 and needs to be heard by the masses. Huge Congrats to Leroy for continuing to refine his craft.

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Hellbound Glory Shoots Pilot TV Show With Jason Isbell, Shooter Jennings, JD Wilkes, Kellie Pickler and more, Finally Seeing the Light Of Day

Leroy and Rico of Hellbound Glory working on a pilot tv show shot by Judd Films

A few years back Leroy and Rico of Hellbound Glory recorded a few tracks as a live taping for a pilot show at the Cash Cabin outside of Nashville with Judd Films. It is finally seeing the light of day and quite interested to see more of the songs that were taped at the time. With all the folks involved, damn if this wasn't a great studio style session.

Rusty Knuckles Provides the Perfect Harmonic Balance To Your Life

Rusty Knuckles Provides the Perfect Harmonic Balance To Your Life

Looking for the exact Harmonic Balancer to make things run smooth? Look no further. We got ya covered. Updated shirt design about to hit the press. 

Hellbound Glory Got A Nice Package In The Mail

Hellbound Glory showing off the random package insert

Who doesn't like to receive nice packages in the mail? Even better is when you get packages on the road while on tour. Adding a few nice photos is just our little way of saying we got your back.

Rory Kelly And JB Beverley Are Not Missing A Single Show On This Tour

Rory Kelly and Zeke from Hellbound Glory are down for the cause

Cancel the gig, hells no. Rory Kelly, Zeke from Hellbound Glory and JB Beverley are doing the road side fixes and gonna keep on truckin'. This is how its done! Keep up to date with them on our Tour Dates page for hitting a city near you.

The Shore Road Tavern Ranks As One of Philly's Top Music Venues

Mike Fiedler of the Shore Road Tavern is always at the ready

Every now and then in life you get to meet a new life long friend that just literally walks into your life. I can certify this, as that is exactly how Mike Fiedler and I became friends. It all started at Muddy Roots a few years back when a dude on an Indian rolls up asking if we have tools he can borrow. He surely did find the right booth at Muddy Roots and next thing ya know, his pal Iggy and I were tearing into the controls on the bike and working up a fix. From that day forward, it was an instant bond. 

Mike and Cathy are the proud owners of the Shore Road Tavern and what an honor it is to see their fine establishment featured on Philly.com as a renowned local music venue. The hard work and long hours they pour into the venue is not lost on anyone. This type of dedication allows ol' Mike to know anyone and everyone, while also having the respect of every band that passes through their stone entryway. So damn proud for them to get a big feature such as this and hopefully it will further cement the Shore Road Tavern as a tour stop in North East Philly.

Get Out To The Midwest Mecca of Bar Hoppers, Hot Rods and Real Music

Get Out To The Midwest Mecca of Bar Hoppers, Hot Rods and Real Music

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OH IO is where the action is this weekend. Get out to first annual Midwest Mecca of Hot Rods and Choppers with Carolina Still, The Damned Angels, Husky Burnette, Fifth on The Floor, Shooter Jennings, Eddy Francis and Hellbound Glory. Should be a damn good time.

Hellbound Glory Review Of LV From Something Else Reviews

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"After 2011′s Damaged Goods, it looked like Reno’s Hellbound Glory might be on the way to stardom. They landed an opening spot for Kid Rock, a coup for an independent underground country act. There was talk of a fourth album to come soon. Then, they just sort of disappeared.

Leroy Virgil Feature Interview On Saving Country Music

Leroy Virgil of Hellbound Glory

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"Reno’s Hellbound Glory has just released a new 5-song EP called LV, named for the initials of lead singer and songwriter Leroy Virgil. The album was recorded in and partially inspired by Leroy’s hometown of Aberdeen, Washington, and marks the first new music from Leroy and Hellbound Glory in nearly three years.

On the occasion of the new release I gave Leroy a call and spoke to him about the new EP, another EP he has coming out July 3rd called Folk Hero, and what opening for Kid Rock on an arena tour did for his career.

“It’s about a hour-and-a-half outside of Reno on the Gardnerville side, through Gardnerville, then you take 88 up into the mountains,” Leroy tells me about the place he’s living now ouside of Reno. “Just a little town, out kinda in the middle of nowhere. I’ve got a really great view. Hardly anyone lives around me. Just a really secluded little place out in the woods, which is cool by me. I’ve lived up here for about a year.

“Obviously I spend a lot of time out on the road. But my wife and I moved up here to be closer to her family. Just wanted a place where my kid could play out in the woods. The area we can afford to live in Reno was getting a little bit rough. So this was good for the family. My boy is great. He’s a big boy. He knows my music, loves music in general. He’s my biggest fan, and I’m his biggest fan too. Since he’s been born I’ve been stealing material from him.”

Tell us about this new EP you’ve got out, LV.

Last Halloween I wrote this song called “Streets of Aberdeen”. It literally took me like a half hour to put it all together. I wrote it, and later that night I posted it on the internet to share it, and as I started playing it more, I thought, “this has some potential.” I got a hold of an old friend of mine back in Aberdeen that I used to record with when I was a teenager who has a studio there. I just said, “Hey, would you be interested in hitting the studio together?” He’d been out of commission for a while, but he got it all set up. If you’ve heard the song, the storyline’s about an infamous murderer back there in Aberdeen. And the place I recorded it—and this is completely random, none of this was on purpose—but the actual studio is an old union building where Billy Gohl murdered all these people at. That just happens to be where the studio happens to be. So I wrote this song, and I kind of knew in the back of my mind that the studio was in the same place, but the song is about it, and it’s recorded right there. I don’t know, I just thought it was something kind of cool. I’d always heard the story when I was a kid and it was stuck in my brain. It makes for a good story at the very least.

The EP is all tape, all analog studio, and he hadn’t been recording for about ten years or so. So it’s old tape equipment before they started using Pro Tools and stuff. There’s no computers in the whole entire office. And I went there and did a couple of songs with Adam whose playing bass for me, and Marty Chandler who plays guitar for the Supersuckers. They play on a few of the songs, and then the rest of the songs I just did by myself as kind of a one man band.

The “Streets of Aberdeen” song, I tried to get it recorded for a couple of sessions, and it just wasn’t coming together. It got to be one of the last days, and I knew Bryan [the engineer] had to head off to some dance thing for his wife. It got to about four o’clock and he had to be gone by five, so I just tuned the guitar down and started strumming something and I came up with this chord. And after a bunch of tries earlier, I found the right chord, I found the right tempo, and I recorded everything on the song in about an hour.

Tell us about your history with Aberdeen. Hellboud Glory is so synonymous with Reno, but I know that’s the area you’re from.

My mom moved to Aberdeen when I was about three. She met my step dad out there and I lived out there for the most part, with the exception of a couple months here and there when I would visit my real father who lived in Sun Valley, right outside of Reno. So I bounced back and forth between the two places quite a bit. At about 21, I decided to move out of Aberdeen because I wanted to go to Reno to become a big star (laughing). That’s a joke. Nobody moves to Reno to become a big star. But I moved to Reno to pursue music a little bit, and to get to know my dad. But yeah, I grew up in Aberdeen. I grew up on an oyster farm just outside of town, but I also spent a lot of time hanging out in the downtown area with street kids.

And Aberdeen is a strange town because I don’t know that traditionally you would call it a music town, but there’s all this musical history swirling around the area out there.

Metal Church is from out there, which actually Brian Smith who recorded this EP has some ties to. The Melvins are from out there. And of course Nirvana and Kurt Cobain are from Aberdeen as well. There’s definitely something in the water out there I’d say.

So why release a 5-song EP now instead of a full album a later? Do you consider this somewhat of a concept album because it’s so tied to this location?

There would be more songs if I had more songs that I’d recorded. I’ve got to say that LV is the first thing I’ve put out where I’m happy with every single one of the songs. The versions are definitive versions of these songs. Some of the past projects, I’d put twelve songs on it and there would be three or four songs where it was a good song, but I just wasn’t quite happy with the way it turned out, but I put it on there just because I wanted to get the song out. This was the first time I didn’t make concessions to time or anything.

I’ve got another 5-song EP in the can that I’ll be putting out July 3rd. It’s going to be called Folk Hero. It’s going to be a political album. A lot of the songs people have probably heard and there’s a couple of cover songs. It’s more electric than the stuff I have doing with the Aberdeen sessions. It’s a little bit more like what our live show is going to be like. It was recorded out in Detroit.

The “LV” of the EP is for your initials. How much is this LV EP Hellbound Glory, and how much of it is it Leroy Virgil?

I started Hellbound Glory more than ten years ago back in Reno. Hellbound Glory has always been my thing. It’s always been less of a band, and more of a gang. People come and people go, and people come back. Because I recorded this EP back in Aberdeen, and I recorded a lot of it by myself, it is a little bit more of a pure expression of just me. I really put a lot of myself onto the tape with it. Just trying to capture more where I’m from as opposed to where the band is from.



Have you thought about just going under the Leroy Virgil name?

I’ve actually considered it a lot. We’ve talked about it, but there’s so much momentum going with Hellbound Glory and I’ve got so many years of work into it. Within a week or two of moving to Reno, I’d written the song and turned it into a band name. So it’s been something I’m stuck with. Part of me would like a change. But it’s a great band name when you think about it. It’s good and evil, heaven and hell. As I’ve changed lineups, I’ve always called the band something different. For a while we were the Excavators, for a while I was calling it the Damaged Good Ol’ Boys, for a while to was the Damn Seagulls, so it’s always kind of changing up for me. I could see a day when it is called Leroy & Hellbound Glory, or whatever. I have no shortage of good band names. I want people to connect with the songs rather than the band name.

Every time I bring up Hellbound Glory, people ask me what’s going on with those Shooter Jennings sessions that you did out in Nashville. Is it coming in the future, is it sort of in limbo?

You know, I’d say it will probably be out someday. To be honest with you, I didn’t really bring it to the recording sessions. A lot of the songs I hadn’t finished yet, I don’t think. And we were just really limited on time. I’ve heard them, and Shooter did a great job, it was just I didn’t do that great of a job. We drove three days and showed up at noon and started playing. We really partied pretty hard. And you know, I don’t regret doing it because it made the songs better. But I just wasn’t too stoked about what got laid to tape. I love Shooter to death and I wish it would have worked out, but the songs weren’t done yet. There were lyrics on it that were half cooked. I didn’t sing all that great. But I’m looking forward to working with Shooter again. We’ve actually talked about getting back into this studio in Aberdeen.

How much does it concern you that you have songs out there that you’ve created, and maybe you get tired of them, or maybe you’re working on them, and that maybe they’ll get lost?

I’m not afraid of that at all. I like my songs. I’ve got five new ones that I’m polishing up right now. For me, I don’t want to force it in the studio. All of those songs I recorded with Shooter, they’re not off the table. I’m not going to put them out until I’ve got the right groove for them. I’m going to keep on trying. I’m always working on them. I’m still planning to get them out because I like them. I think they’re great songs.

What kind of impact did the Kid Rock tour have on your career?

It put me on stage in front of a bunch of people, and I learned a whole shitload just being around the guy. I don’t know. My life has completely changed since I went on that tour. People may not be able to see it. We’re not selling out big places or nothing. But I’ve got a nice new van, recording in a nice studio. I’ve got a really good booking agent. I don’t know. Every interaction I had with Kid Rock, I learned something. He didn’t make me an overnight sensation, but he definitely put me on the radar."

Official - Hellbound Glory - Streets Of Aberdeen on CMT Edge

Leroy Virgil of Hellbound Glory featured on CMT Edge with "Streets Of Aberdeen"

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"Leroy Virgil of Hellbound Glory wanted to write a song about his hometown of Aberdeen, Wash., but one that took the opposite approach of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ “American,” which pokes fun of Aberdeen.

“I thought it was cool that people in Aberdeen could embrace people making fun of them, but I wanted to write another song from the point of view of someone actually from Aberdeen,” Virgil tells CMT Edge. “So I came up with the song title ‘Streets of Aberdeen,’ and I started thinking of the idea of the haunted river, and it just came to me.”

That haunted river is the Wishkah, which is tied to two local legends. First is Billy Gohl, a serial killer in the early 1900s who robbed and murdered transient sailors and disposed of their bodies in the river. The other is Kurt Cobain, whose fans still make pilgrimages to the bridges of the Wishkah to pay respects in his hometown.

“Streets of Aberdeen” is the lead track to a new Hellbound Glory EP, titled LV, that will be released May 13. Describing the new music, Virgil says, “It’s a little more stripped-down and acoustic just because that’s what I wanted to do with this song. I would say it’s a little bit deeper than some of my old stuff.”

(More EPs are on the way, with a loud and rowdy one set for July 3 and possibly another in the fall.)

Although he now lives in Reno, Nev., Virgil recorded LV in Aberdeen. Coincidentally, the recording studio is located in the former sailor’s union building where Gohl killed his victims. Most of the scenes in the video for “Streets of Aberdeen” were shot there, too.

“I don’t believe in ghosts or anything like that, and I’m not really into the supernatural. I just wanted to write a song. But if you listen closely, there’s some strange stuff in the background,” Virgil says of the audio track.

The LV EP also includes “Just a Shell” (a.k.a. “A Shell of a Hell of a Man”), which Hellbound Glory fans have been requesting for a while, as well as a catchy country song called “So Nervous, No Service,” inspired by growing up in Aberdeen. The collection concludes with “Goodnight, Irene” by Lead Belly, one of Cobain’s favorite musicians.

“If the river could sing a song, it would probably be that song,” Virgil says. “It’s so morbid and dark.”

Here’s the CMT Edge premiere of Hellbound Glory’s video, “Streets of Aberdeen.”"

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Hellbound Glory Should Provide The Soundtrack To Pawn Stars

Leroy of Hellbound Glory and his wife hanging with the Pawn Stars

This past weekend, Leroy Virgil of Hellbound Glory played a private birthday party for Corey from the TV Show Pawn Stars. Now if they would only get one of his great songs as a theme for the tv show to help get his music further out to the masses. Hopefully soon ol' HBG will finally get over to the European shores where fans have been waiting to see them for quite a few years.

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Chicago Is The Place To Be For MoonRunners Music Fest This Weekend

Find out more on Moonruuners Music Fest at Reggies in Chicago

Friday April 25th 2014

Music Joint Stage:
2:00- Joey Henry's Dirty Sunshine Club
2:50- Lou Shields
4:05- Coondog and the Stumpjumpers
5:45- Lonewolf OMB
6:35- Adam Lee Band
7:25- Ten Foot Polecats
8:15- Molly Gene One Whoaman Band
9:15- Hellbound Glory

Rock Club Stage:
3:15- Joey Henry's Dirty Sunshine Club
3:45- Nellie Wilson
4:35- The Tosspints
5:15- Pearls Mahone
6:10- Highlonesome
7:00- The Hooten Hallers
7:55- The Calamity Cubes
8:50- Cletus Got Shot (One Time only Reunion Set)
10:00- Possessed by Paul James
11:15- The Goddamn Gallows

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Saturday April 26th 2014 

Music Joint Stage:
11:20am- The Ghost Bandits
11:35am- Tony French
12:15- Rickett Pass
2:00- Carmen Lee and the Tomorrow River Two
3:50- The Hangdog Hearts
4:50- Carrie Nation and the Speakeasy
6:05- Whiskey Dick
6:50- Black Eyed Vermillion
7:55- Rachel Kate
9:00- Joseph Huber

Rock Club Stage:  
11:50- Jeff Shephard and the Jailhouse Poets
12:45- Six Gun Britt
1:25- The Imperial Rooster
2:30- Matt Woods
3:15- Filthy Still
4:20- C.W. Ayon
5:30- Last False Hope
7:20- J.B. Beverley and the Wayward Drifters
8:25- Fifth on the Floor
9:50- Roger Alan Wade
11:15- Scott H. Biram

Leroy Virgil of Hellbound Glory Is A Pawn Star

Leroy Virgil of Hellbound Glory on the set of Pawn Stars

Turns out Corey from Pawn Stars is a big Hellbound Glory fan so Leroy and the fellas rolled over to the shop to talk to them on all things Real Country Music.

Hellbound Glory Invades The Outlaw Snowdown

Hellbound Glory Invades The Outlaw Snowdown

The Outlaw Snowdown is more than a music festival… it’s a rowdy, rock and ride weekend. A high-country congregation of  folks lookin’ to have a good time. A play-hard weekend for the work-hard set.With a line-up of artists that run the gamut from Red Dirt and Cowpunk to Americana and Outlaw, the one thing each act has in common is a kick-ass, live country show.

2014 Artists Include: Whitey Morgan + the 78′s, Hellbound Glory, Lydia Loveless, The Freightshakers, Merle Jagger and Bordertown Saints + more!

Previous Outlaw Snowdown Artist Include: Stoney Larue, Jason Boland, Supersuckers, The Band of Heathens, Hellbound Glory, Elizabeth Cook, Shooter Jennings, Micky & the Motorcars, Whitey Morgan and the 78′s, Lydia Loveless, Fifth on the Floor, Chad Sullins and the Last Call Coalition, The Ben Miller Band, D.L. Marble Caitlin Cannon + the Artillery and Brooks-i!

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Hellbound Glory In The Studio Recording New Material

Traveling can be a damn great time especially when you get to link up with friends on the road. Damn good times were had last night in Asheville, NC with Hellbound Glory, The Go Devils and many of our brethren in the hills.

What could be better than making it rain with song requests?

Hellbound Glory signed used drum heads for sale on the merch table.

Hellbound Glory merch table is ready to make deals

Hellbound Glory on stage at the Mothlight in Asheville, NC

The Go Devils brought their A game to the show and showcased some new material.

Hellbound Glory Featured In The Oklahoma Gazette

Hellbound Glory Featured In The Oklahoma Gazette

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"When Leroy Virgil heard a Hank Williams Sr. album as a child growing up in Washington state, his lifelong love of country music began. That love only deepened when he heard the voice of Waylon Jennings.

“I developed this obsession with Hank Williams Sr.,” Virgil said from his home near Reno, Nev. “And the moment I heard Waylon Jennings’ voice, it just grabbed me.”

For the last 11 years, he has been the frontman of Hellbound Glory, a band that sounds more like Jennings in his prime than radio-friendly country. Band members have come and gone, but Virgil has been a constant with a voice that often sounds as rough and whiskey-tinged as Jennings but with songs influenced by everything from the country greats to Nirvana.



Virgil grew up on a farm in a small town, but not the sort of farm where cattle was punched and herded. He grew up on an oyster farm near Aberdeen, Wash., the hometown of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. Rather than a cool Pacific Northwest town crawling with grunge musicians and coffee shops, Virgil said it was as rural a town as any he has visited in the Deep South.

“My upbringing was country,” he said.

Virgil wrote his first song when he was 12, visited Nashville as a young man and learned to play the guitar and harmonica. He formed the band in Reno and has spent more than a decade singing his brand of country (with an occasional Nirvana cover) in venues large and small around the United States. Last year, he spent time on the road as the opening act for Kid Rock. This year, he played seven dates as the opener for Oklahoma’s own Leon Russell.

Staying true to country, but also to his roots, Virgil does not sing about places he isn’t from.
“Everyone’s singing about Tennessee or singing about Texas,” he said. “I’m not from Texas, and I’m not from Tennessee.”

Hellbound Glory has three studio albums, and Virgil is at work on new material.

In the last few years, Virgil has spent the majority of his time on the road. The current tour will take the band to about 30 stops in the United States and Canada between February and May.

“I really spent the last three or four years playing every dive bar and weird honky-tonk around the country,” Virgil said. “But it’s been fun. We’ve had a lot of adventures.”

Virgil said he is excited to return to Oklahoma to see some old friends, including Meghan McCoy and Jarod Tracy, who he met in Reno and who lined up the band’s first Oklahoma show. Hopefully they will introduce more people to his brand of country, whether they listen to mainstream country, outlaw country or don’t listen to country music at all.

“When the people who listen to pop country hear us, they like it,” he said. “That also has happened with a lot of people who are into rock and metal. I want to make music people like.”"

Rusty Knuckles 2014 Album Releases

Rusty Knuckles Music 2014 lineup

If you are going to kick the door in, be prepared with backup. Folks, we have that in absolute spades with the amount of talent and dedicated rabble rousers within the ranks dropping new albums this year. Not only are there new projects being finished up by Rory Kelly, Flat Tires, Hellbound Glory, Husky Burnette, Jay Berndt and the Green Lady Killers, but have a read below on the killer bands that are putting out albums with us.

Its a damn honor to work with such a hard working and talented group of misfits.

Rusty Knuckles Music 2014 Releases
(not in any particular order for release date)

• Crank County Daredevils / Buzzoven - Split 7" Record
• Husky Burnette - Acoustic EP
• Flat Tires - new full length being recorded with Joe Queer
• Rory Kelly - new full length
• Hellbound Glory - new EP 
• Jay Berndt & The Orpans - new full length featuring horn section from E-Street Band
• The Green Lady Killers - new full length
• Peewee Moore - new full length
• Buzzoven - catalog re-releases
• Bloodwitch - new full length
• The Go Devils - new full length
• Dripping Slits - Catalog Re-Release, new full length
• K. Lloyd - Buzzoven frontman's new solo full length featuring Jimmy Bower of Down and Brian Patton of Eyehategod and Soilent Green

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Buzzoven

The fire and the fury that is Buzzoven has found a new home at Rusty Knuckles Music

Buzzov*en was a sludge metal band from North Carolina, formed in 1989 by the remaining members of Sewer Puppet by guitarist/vocalist Kirk Fisher (often credited on releases as "Reverend Dirtkicker"). The band was known for being one of the founders of the sludge genre (after Eyehategod), and also for their out-of-control and violent live shows. The band in its early days toured heavily around the United States and built up a cult following leading up to the release of their first full-length, To a Frown, in 1993, which caught the attention of Roadrunner Records, who released the band's second album Sore in 1994. The band was dropped by Roadrunner, and from then on have gone through several periods of being split-up and reformed, with the only constant member having been Kirk Fisher. Dave Collins who now heads sludge legends Weedeater and Ramsey has gone on to join fellow sludgers Sourvein.




Bloodwitch

Bloodwitch is set to release the album "Tell Your God To Ready For Blood"

BLOODWITCH, the Boston/Providence-based band featuring current members of SEEMLESS and former members of KILGORE. According to the band's official bio, "BLOODWITCH was formed in 2007 by SEEMLESS guitarists Pete Cortese and Jeff Fultz. Pete had begun writing songs for their anticipated third album and found that many of the tunes just didn't fit right for SEEMLESS. What had emerged was a combination of influences from the golden age of British heavy metal, the early style of Bay Area thrash metal, the boogie of AC/DC and ZZ TOP, with the dual guitar harmonies of THIN LIZZY. With the quality of songwriting, Cortese was able to enlist ex-KILGORE vocalist Jay Berndt and ex-KILGORE drummer Bill Southerland into the fold. Rounding out the five-piece is producer and keyboard player for Worcester metal band FROZEN, Pete Rutcho on bass guitar."

BLOODWITCH music focuses on Berndt's lyrical interpretation of a war-hungry society and the band's modern delivery of classic metal. Stay tuned for the new album entitled "Tell Your God To Ready for Blood".




The Go Devils

The Go Devils will be releasing a stellar album in mid 2014 with Rusty Knuckles Music

The Go Devils create a unique and original infusion of roots, rockabilly, punk, country, swing, and psychobilly." Heartfelt and profound lyrics and top notch song writing are showcased along side music that is melodic and driving, high energy and catchy as hell." Running strong for 4 years and blazing a trail throughout the southeast, This power trio are fast becoming a force to be reckoned with in the developing underground roots music scene, and offer a spectacle of a live show that you would be sorry you missed. Coming to a town near you... If not, ask and ye shall receive!



Peewee Moore

Country music troubadour Peewee Moore joins Rusty Knuckles for 2014

Since July 2007 Peewee Moore has honed a rigid reputation, and following playing over 200 shows a year in more than 100 U.S. Cities carrying the torch of 100% Independent Austin Texas Outlaw Country!

Peewee Moore is a self proclaimed Honkytonk / Outlaw Country Singer / Songwriter in the same vein as Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Johnny Paycheck, and Hank Williams. He has been barnstorming around the country with his trio dubbed "Peewee Moore & The Awful Dreadful Snakes" doing an endless string of one night stands from Austin TX to you name it. If you havent caught a show it's your own fault!

Born and raised in the foothills of the Appalachian rainforest just across the TN border in Fort Oglethorpe, GA, Peewee spent most of his time haunting the streets of Chattanooga TN playing many of his first shows in, and around the "Choo Choo" city. Peewee spent the consecutive years making a name for himself as an accomplished picker, and songwriter throughout the Southeast.

With the gift of raw talent, and showmanship Peewee has been fortunate enough to be able to share the stage with several of his hero's, as well as some of outlaw country, Americana, and rockabilly's most well known, and recieved acts such as Billy Joe Shaver, David Allen Coe, Dwight Yoakam, Steve Earle, Charlie Daniels, Junior Brown, Dale Watson, Wayne Hancock, Cowboy Jack Clement, Shooter Jennings, James McMurtry, Chris Knight, Dicky Betts, Pat Green, Cory Morrow, Todd Snyder, Wanda Jackson, Southern Culture On The Skids, Scott H. Biram, Bobby Bare Jr, and countless others.



Dripping Slits

Illinois's bastard sons, the Dripping Slits will bring their dirty rock n' roll to Rusty Knuckles Music in 2014

Formed somewhere between yesterday's hangover and today's buzz, Dripping Slits is a raucous blend of rock 'n' roll method and madness hailing from Middle-of-Nowhere, Illinois that is sure to arouse your senses with an overdose of venomous guitar riffs, thundering percussion, and plenty of gutteral groove and grit.