The Grant and Moe Show stopped by during the birthday bash to share the love.  Grant has co-hosted a couple of Saturday Night shows with Frank, and we’ve dubbed them the Hounddog House Band.  Here’s the first song they performed at the 2010 Hounddog Radio Birthday Bash.

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The Silver Rock Band came ready to rock at the birthday bash on June 6th, 2010, and we managed to capture their first song on video.  Make sure to stay tuned to find out how you can get a CD with all the bands from Birthday Bash 2010

The Bearfoot Hookers are a favorite around Hounddog Radio, and when they come in the studio, they always bring the party.  They’re also some of the nicest guys you could ever meet.

That’s why when we got this request from The Hookers, we couldn’t help but see what we could do to help The BearFoot Hookers raise a little dough to get their new album pressed.

Usually we don’t just forward emails to the website, but there’s no way we could duplicate the energy (and some comedy) oozing from the email, so we’re just going to repost it as is, so you can see who you’d be helping:

Hey y’all,

I know, it’s been a long time. I’ve grown older, you’ve grown wiser, and some of us (Ty) have just grown. But the important thing is that we’re all here now, in this new and brave electric world where though we wade through threats of fire, famine and flood, there is no news so important as a new Bearfoot Hookers record.

What?

Did you read that right? Has it been five years? Are they all out of jail? I thought the guitar player had herpes? Didn’t they break up?

And the answer to at least three of those questions is a resounding, “No.” Yes, yes, friends and family, members of the congregation and unrepentant sinners, The Bearfoot Hookers do indeed have a new album that is in the damn can. Meaning we wrapped the recording sessions Saturday when none other than the legendary Fat Bottom Horns came in and laid some sweet soul butter on top of this deep-fried Southern soiree.

But like any news that gets you thinking, “This is too good to be true. The recession truly is over!” there is a caveat. And if any of you know this band, you can probably see it coming. It’s like that time that you ran into one of the guys in the band in a bar and y’all got to talking, threw back a few shots and one thing leads to another and suddenly there’s 10 folks crowded around chanting your name, some are shirts and some are skins, things get a little sketchy after that and suddenly you wake up the next day in some stranger’s attic clutching a guitar with a receipt in your pocket for a $400 bar tab run up in an hour and a half. I know, it happened once to me too.  How do you think I got involved in this outfit in the first place?

Forget that craziness, though. I know I have. In fact, I don’t think I ever really remembered it in the first place. As a friend of mine once told me, the past is not dead, it’s not even past. Gospel truth, that. Which brings me back to this record, aptly named Beer Drinkin’ Gospel Revival. You see brothers and sisters, the Building Fund is a little short as usual and what with the price of gas and the cost of inflation and six months of supporting the various habits of a top-notch engineer, we find ourselves in need of a little help from our friends to bring this thing on in.

Let me emphasize that we are finished recording this album. What we need is some financial assistance in order to mix, master and press this sucker into that lovely and swiftly decaying physical format of modern music, the CD. But we find ourselves in an age where these types of modern day miracles are possible. Through the assistance of www.kickstarter.com, the Bearfoot Hookers are running a pledge drive/pre-sale/all-hands-out fundraiser to bring in the last of this roughly $2,000 we’re short. We want this thing in hand by June and we need your help to do it. I can see that look in your eye and yes, this is a legitimate business with legitimate partnerships and protections for your online funds.

Here’s how it works. Kickstarter is partnered with Amazon.com, the largest behemoth of online sales in the world. (They eat little independent bookstores like mine for breakfast.) You know you’ve ordered something throughAmazon in the past. (Probably books, but that’s ok, too. I still love you.) If so, you’ve already got an account with them. You pledge money through Kickstarter and it’s charged through the financially reputable Amazon.com. And here’s the kicker: if we fail to get pledges in the amount of our goal of $2,000, then nobody is charged anything and it was all for nought. I think we can do this, though. You can donate as little as $1 or as much as you’d like. We’re offering different incentives for different pledge amounts as you can read here or see in a video here. Let me emphasize that any amount helps. If you can only donate $1, then please do because that stuff adds up.  You can just look at this as a pre-sale also and just go ahead and purchase your copy of the album in advance.

So please, please go here…

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bearfoothookers/mix-master-and-press-the-bearfoot-hookers-new-reco

…now and help get this album out. (The video is pretty funny, too.) If by some miracle we go over the amount, for God’s sake keep pledging because we’re really in hock on this thing anyway. Also, if we get a good bit more, then I’m making a push to have this thing pressed in vinyl, so we might make another goal for that if the project takes off.

So again – and as always – we’ll send peace, love, good music and questionable moral decisions your way if you’ll send a little cash ours. Email me with any questions at thebearfoothookers@yahoo.com.

Seriously y’all, we need the money.

See y’all at the revival,

Jon

Here’s that link again in case you missed it:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bearfoothookers/mix-master-and-press-the-bearfoot-hookers-new-reco

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bearfoothookers/mix-master-and-press-the-bearfoot-hookers-new-reco

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bearfoothookers/mix-master-and-press-the-bearfoot-hookers-new-reco

The Three-Axe-Attack of Athens Georgia based Drive-By Truckers have been thrilling music fans since the mid-nineties and the genre-bending group of six rockers have recently released their first studio album in two years.  The Big To-Do has garnered the usual accolades that the group has become accustom to.

The heavy guitar riffs (the band features 3 guitarists) and common-man lyrics seem to resonate with anyone within earshot of the band’s music.  The lyrics are easy to relate to, something missing in the mainstream, corporate music scene.  From their debut CD in 1998 (Gangstabilly),  Drive By Truckers have become known as a

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Laced with a mixture of blues, rock, and country, The Big To-Do is racing up Americana Radio Charts, and selling like hot-cakes.

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The Album is the band’s eighth overall release, but the first on their new label, ATO.  The Big To-Do is their 5th collaboration with producer David Barbe.  PopMatters says of the new CD that “The Big To-Do boasts the strongest collection of songs from the Drive-By Truckers since Decoration Day”

The Big To-Do Track listing

1. “Daddy Learned to Fly” (Hood)
2. “The Fourth Night of My Drinking” (Hood)
3. “Birthday Boy” (Cooley)
4. “Drag the Lake Charlie” (Hood)
5. “The Wig He Made Her Wear” (Hood)
6. “You Got Another” (Tucker)
7. “This Fucking Job” (Hood)
8. “Get Downtown” (Cooley)
9. “After the Scene Dies” (Hood)
10. “(It’s Gonna Be) I Told You So” (Tucker)
11. “Santa Fe” (Hood)
12. “The Flying Wallendas” (Hood)
13. “Eyes Like Glue” (Cooley)
14. “Girls Who Smoke” (Bonus track – vinyl only) (Hood)

Did You Buy The Big To-Do?  If so what did you think of the DBTs newest Album?

It just comes naturally for Julie Gribble, writing, singing, and performing. But what she loves most is to inspire, to reach people with her music.

Julie’s credits include the Lifetime movie “Dive at Clauson’s Pier,” popular Nickelodeon shows “Zoey 101,” “Drake and Josh” and their TV movie “Drake & Josh Go to Hollywood,” as well as “South of Nowhere” on Noggin and “Smallville” on the CW network.

Guest appearances include: “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” (2005 and 2007), “The Tyra Banks Show” (CBS), Good Day Atlanta (FOX), Daytime (NBC), Low Country Live (ABC), TV Guide Channel, and Cafe Central

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(CABLETV). Julie also received the 2005 LA Music Award for Best Adult Alternative Artist, has been featured in Music Connection Magazine’s Hot 100 unsigned bands (for both 2006 and 2007) and was also named one of the “Best Emerging Artists of 2006″ in American Idol Magazine. And, of course, Hounddog Radio. This lovely lady is definitely a quickly rising star not to miss.

Julie Gribble and drummer Sean Bennett came by the Doghouse on June 25, 2008 and played a few tunes for us. You can listen to the entire show right here.

These wonderful, acoustic performers hailing from Rome, GA, have been voted “Best Traditional Folk Act” (Reader’s Choice), for Creative Loafing’s “Best of Atlanta” issue for both 2005 and 2006. David Eduardo of AthensMusic.com says:

“The music performed by Little Country Giants dates to an era where cowboys were becoming an endangered species–but well before Nashville endorsed drawstring linen pants, highlighted hair, and expensive porcelain teeth…(They) take listeners to the front porch of an antebellum mansion. Everyone gets a rocking chair, and the fire flies flames are never extinguished.”

Well said, and dead-on accurate. Check out the Giants’ album, Sing Pretty for the People, and you’ll get a good taste of what all these folks are talking about.

Russell and Cameron Lee Cook of the Little Country Giants were our first-ever guests in our new studio, as they stopped by “The Gumbo Show with Joe” in May ‘07. Listen to the interview right here!

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Ken Will Morton treated us to some of his wonderful music during our inaugural “songwriters-in-the-round” (a.k.a., “Beer Club for Men”) evening in April ‘07, and we loved every one. His gritty, straight-ahead musical style and sharp-tongued, from-the-heart lyrics recall such luminaries as Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan, with a unique twist to it all that’s strictly Ken Will Morton. Originally hailing from Hartford, CT and now making his home near Athens, GA, Ken’s blend of blues, country, and rock has captured the attention of music critics across the country.

Ken’s first solo album, In Rock ‘n’ Roll’s Hands, was released in 2004 and caught the attention of music critics across the country as well as airplay on many charting non-commercial radio stations. The music takes listeners on the rocky and life-changing road that Ken himself has traveled.

King of Coming Around was released in 2006. We’re playing several songs from it and we think it’s as strong an album as anything we’ve heard in quite some time. With outstanding cuts like “Make Believe Love”, “Beautiful Moment”, and the title track, this CD would make a more than worthy addition to anyone’s music collection.

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If that’s not impressive enough, Moriah Martin has also taken home several Georgia Country & Gospel Music Association (GCGMA) awards for Top Teen Country Artist, CD of the Year, and many more. And the most amazing thing is that this talented lady is just getting started.

Moriah joined us for Nick Sommers’ two-year “Nixterversary” show in April 2008 and was an absolute joy to have with us. We’re hoping she stops back again sometime soon, particularly since we’re practically neighbors ‘n’ all.

Moriah Martin

Spencer’s latest CD, Much More Than Words, has quickly become one of our favorites. He has opened for the likes of the Black Crowes, the Allman Brothers, Ziggy Marley, Del McCoury and David Grisman. We predict even greater accomplishments coming from this impressive young man in the future.

Spencer and his bandmates Alisha Anderson and Tanner Hendon all stopped by HounddogRadio.net in September 2007 and thoroughly impressed us all. Listen to the show right here!

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We’ve been playing April Cummings‘ music for quite a while now, and we just keep liking it more and more. One of the finest singers we know, April is an accomplished songwriter and performer who blends an intriguing mix of country, rock and soul to her music. Her first album, Just a Little Country, is a fine example of what we mean (we’re particularly fond of “On My Radio”, “Southern Livin’”, and the title track). The songs, the vocals, the production, everything is top-notch all around. I guess what we’re saying is, we dig it.

April hails from Gainesville, GA and proudly wears her southern heritage with style. She’s been featured in Gritz Magazine, and atlantacountrymusic.com nominated her Just a Little Country for “Best CD of the Year.” Those folks have some good taste. She’s currently working on her second album, which we believe will be ready for release sometime in late 2007 or early 2008.

We were honored to have April perform an acoustic set at our 2007 Birthday Bash. Whether it be as a solo artist or with a band, it’s always a treat to hear this beautiful lady sing.

April stopped by “The Cabaret Show with Joe” in January ‘07. Listen to the interview right here!

photo courtesy of Elizabeth Nation