Get To Know A Baker Drivetrain Through Process Assembly Video

Baker transmission coming together through assembly

Great step by step process video showcasing how a manual motorcycle transmission is assembled for a v-twin motor. Gotta love American made engineering and high quality products from Baker Drivetrain.

Some Days I Just Can't Enough Of This Track By Dax Riggs

Dax Riggs performing a live in studio track for "Say Goodnight To The World"

"Dax Riggs performs "Say Goodnight To The World" live in-studio for HearYa.com. The session was recorded in downtown Chicago at Shirk Music + Sound and sponsored by BEER NUTS Brand Snacks. Download the entire session here:

Gettin' Clucky In Kentucky, On The Road With Carolina Still

Carolina Still warming up during sound check at Buster's in Lexington, KY

A great thing is going down in this whole underground alt country music scene right now. The bands that are out there working their asses off are starting to get the recognition they deserve via relentless touring and creating great music. These days, you have to fire on all cylinders in order to compete, with so much competition and other genres of music garnering for attention. 

Huge thanks to Justin Wells of Fifth On The Floor for calling Carolina Still and putting them on the big showcase holiday party they put on at Buster's in Lexington, KY along with Jayke Orvis and The Dirt Daubers. Could easily wax poetic and talk on all the good times that were had and great conversations that carried throughout the night, but photos can paint a better picture. Really stoked to see a solid plan coming together and all four bands were on their A game for the whole show. Hopefully more events like this will go down in the near future.

Packed house made it an amazing time at Buster's in Lexington, KY

Carolina Still brought the heat to Kentucky

Rollin' through Charleston, WV in some nasty weather

Slick roads up in the hills of West Virginia and Virginia made Old Time Fiddler hit the bottle

Fifth On The Floor warming up at band rehearsal on stage at Buster's in Lexington, KY

Always read the writing on walls in your local club's bathroom

Always dig seeing what bands toured through a club

Ohio has a Posse and it comes in the form of Stoney, Tyke and Pizza Dave along with myself

Fifth On the Floor brought on an amazing show and can't thank them enough for inviting Carolina Still to join the party

Good times at Buster's in Lexington, KY

Jayke Orvis and Justin Casey of Carolina Still joins Justin Wells of Fifth On the Floor

Backstage after a few rounds of drinks with Lauren and Parsons of Fifth On The Floor

Show flyer for Fifth On The Floor, The Dirt Daubers, Jayke Orvis and Carolina Still

Scratch The Surface, New Life Through Engraving

Old Indian head nickels are ready for engraving

Scratch the surface, serve a purpose" Sick Of It All is ringing true right now as we prep up some of our pirate coin snaps for our belt loops.

Rusty Knuckles belt loop with engraved Indian Head nickel snap

Rusty Knuckles Wrench Knife Logo Merch

New Rusty Knuckles Wrench Knives logo tshirt and prototype leather wallet we have coming out in a few weeks.

Every day is a new adventure. Would like to thank everyone on Etsy for the huge response to our custom leather guitar straps, so here is a sneak peak at our next offering in the custom leather department. 2014 is going to be a great year and we will be having pop up shops at numerous motors and music related events.

Our brand new embroidered patches ready for 2014

Shooter Jennings' "The Other Life" Limited Print Released

"Print Released To Benefit Amann Family: The "Shooter Jennings' The Other Life" print, below, designed by tattoo artist Josh Bodwell (who tattooed Shooter's back and my arm) has been released via The BLDG and Posters & Prayers:  Curated by The Friends of Mike Amann. All proceeds from the print go to the family of our friend Mike Amann who worked first hand on the print.  It's the least we, as a creative unit, could do for someone who was and still is so inspiring to all of us. See  the official press release below along with how you can purchase one or the complete set.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Posters & Prayers is proud to release a series of unique posters created for Shooter Jennings’ short film “The Other Life”. These amazing prints were illustrated by Josh Bodwell and printed by our Mike Amann in March of 2013. Signed by Blake Judd (Director), Shooter Jennings, and Josh Bodwell (Artist). All proceeds will go to the family of Mike Amann.

ABOUT MIKE- Less than a year ago, when Lesley (Mike’s wife) was eight months pregnant with their first child, Mike was diagnosed with stage four high-grade neuroendocrine cancer — despite being an otherwise healthy 33-year-old. Mike passed away November 10 after fighting for nearly a year.

The prints will go on sale Tuesday, December 10 around 8AM.

$25 for each print or $60 for all three color ways.

You can buy here: http://bldgrefuge.com/shop/

Thanks for all you've done for, and will continue to do for us Mike!"
  - Blake Judd

"Would You Die For Love" Relates How A Turn Of A Phrase Can Change Your Entire Life, By Stevie Tombstone

Stevie Tombstone video for "Would You Die For Love"

Download your copy from Itunes

"This song really means a lot to me because it symbolizes a point in my life where i needed to hear those words. They have carried me all over the country and led me to meet many more folks of a like mind. It was the Fall of 2010 and I was leaving Austin for the last time, discouraged and basically overwhelmed with my new responsibilities as a father and trying to make it in the entertainment industry. My wife Melissa in her infinite wisdom suggested we go to the Ozarks and get ourselves in a better spot and spend time with each other away from the rat race and ingenuine climate of the hipster grind. We had an invitation from some friends there and accepted, tying most of our belongings ( except our 2 year old) on the roof our car. We left Texas behind (which I still love dearly and consider my other home) and headed for solace and higher ground. I recall it being dubbed the "sour grapes of wrath era".  Just part of the journey.

One of the folks that invited us to stay was an old buddy and sometimes personal shaman of mine. Lets just call him Bill for anonymity's sake. I was in a bad space after several small failures and feeling like life had dealt me a raw deal.  I wouldn't listen to anyone... except Bill. This man had seen life on all levels. He had lived through some hard times and come out on top in a metaphysical sense. A child of the Depression, the Vietnam War, incarceration and homelessness led him to trek on foot across the country to study under a Zen master and then to settle in the Ozark Mountains. Or so the story goes. He had a way of making you see the truth in things and thus answering your own questions. That was magic in my book.

We were working together outside in the garden one day, speaking of parenthood, personal failures and what a full life we'd both led up to this point. Despite all, I was still in a negative fog of self defeat. He looked at me from beneath his coolie hat under the Ozark sky and said one simple phrase that knocked me off my feet and changed my whole perspective. Would you die for Love?

My immediate answer was yes, but the multitude of thoughts that ran through my mind took me to the same answer on so many levels.Sometimes we just don't see the truth even when its right there in plain view. It was a hazy moment of self realization in the midday sunshine.

Self sacrifice, honesty, and the inevitable peace of having it. Verbal Manna. That phrase stuck in my head for quite a while and shaped my outlook for some time to come,that we really can make a difference by putting others before ourselves. Realizing that's the best thing we can do, and being honest about whether we can or not is a great barometer at the very least.

Stevie Tombstone zoned out after the video shoot for "Would You Die For Love"

I wrote this tune about two months later. It was a country-blues narrative with an Ozark beat. I wanted it to be reminiscent of early buck dancing and appalachian folk music fused with Delta blues from our mutual childhood and parallel existence in the Deep South.

Jerry Jones added the most soulful harmonica lines I've heard in some time, capping the recording off. I mixed the track down with some percussion down from a single microphone recording I had done a few months earlier in my mobile home near Devils Dive, nearly in Missouri.This tune ended up on the Slow Drunken Waltz EP and was released in 2011 on the Farmageddon label. Now under my new label ALTCO, we decide it merited another push and video treatment. Ralph Miller shot this video with an iphone during an east coast tour in the swamps near Raleigh, North Carolina.

Fuel Magazine Releases Issue 15

Fuel Magazine releases issue 15 detailing an interview with Los Angeles based photographer and car nut Magda Wosinska

Every issue that pops up from Fuel Magazine is well articulated and put together with fine precision. Their high level design, photography and writing never fails to disappoint and helps to show us on the other side of the Pacific, just what they have cooking down under.

Fuel Magazine, number 15

Andy Colalillo’s stunning ’34 Roadster.

Dave Mucci‘s latest custom build

Mikael Lugnegård‘s cool digital hot rod concepts

Michael Morris’ Chevrolet custom

Melbourne based Gasolina‘s latest custom build, ‘Sub Zero’

1972 Challenger

Jay Berndt and The Orphans Team Up With Narragansett Beer

Jay Berndt & The Orphans will play the 123rd Anniversary Birthday Party of Narragansett Beer on December 27th 2013

So you reside in the north east and need a great show to get out to on December 27th? Well hell, get out to see Jay Berndt & The Orphans at Narragansett's 123rd Anniversary Birthday Party. Yep, 123 years of great beer brewing in Rhode Island.

Do yourself a favor and check out some great albums with Jay Berndt

Jay Berndt & The Orphans will play the 123rd Anniversary Birthday Party of Narragansett Beer on December 27th 2013

Husky Burnette Lampooned On AvClub.com

2013 The Year In Band Names, from Avclub.com featuring "Husky Brunette" aka Husky Burnette

All we can say is that press is press sometimes and to see Husky Burnette being lampooned as "Husky Brunette" just about made our day. Comedy is one of the elixir's to the soul.

"Each year, The A.V. Club encounters thousands of bands, 97 percent of which we won’t remember. What makes a band memorable? A good sound? Sure, that helps. A persistent publicist? Also helpful (or harmful, depending on the number of messages we get). A bizarre name? Definitely. In the many years that we’ve been doing our annual “year in band names” story, we can still rattle off some of our favorites. Who could forget Here Comes Old Vodka Tits? Or Happy Mothers Day, I Can’t Read? Gay Witch Abortion also belongs in the hall of fame. No matter how good the music is, these bands make the world a more interesting place. Here are some more fighting the good fight."

2013 The Year In Band Names, from Avclub.com featuring "Husky Brunette" aka Husky Burnette