THE PINE BOX BOYS

Lester T. Raww from Arkansas started The Pine Box Boys in San Francisco, CA during 2003, originally planning to perform new versions of old murder ballad classics like "The Knoxville Girl," and "Fair Eleanor". Soon, however, Raww transitioned the music to all original songs paying the same grim homage to themes of murder, misery, zombies and generally unapologetic acts of mayhem. This led to their first album, Arkansas Killing Time.

"In my mind, I wanted something that sounded like Willie Nelson in a punk band".

Lester blames the emphasis of murder, misery, and zombies on his mother:
"My mother grew up REAL country, and she raised me on all those old songs. Before bed, she would sing murder ballads to me such as "Pretty Polly," "Skin and Bones Lady," and "The Knoxville Girl." She also liked horror films".

Lester combined all of this into his unique brand of music: not exactly bluegrass — more like "bloodgrass".

Bassist Colonel Timothy Leather and drummer Steven "Your Uncle" Dodds joined him in those early days. Uncle Dodds suggested that they bring banjo-picker Alex "Possum" Carvidi into the group. These four became the core of the band and entered the exciting world of nomadic musicianship, traveling the States and parts of Europe.

Stab! was their second release. While Arkansas Killing Time included many slower songs, Stab! album was the result of playing faster songs for live performances and remains their best seller to date.

These first two albums, combined with their third release Child Of Calamity, tell the disjointed story of a killer named Willie and his many victims. The fourth album, Tales From The Emancipated Head, was released in 2011. It is a collection of 13 stories as told by a decapitated head as it rolls down a hill.

The Pine Box Boys’ latest album The Feast Of Three Arms was released in the Fall of 2016 and is a concept album. Through a combination of music and spoken narration, the album tells the story of Jubal, the Boy with No Last Name and his quest for vengeance on the man who wronged his mother Parmalene, the woman with three arms.

THE PINE BOX BOYS are:
Lester T. Raww: Vocals, Guitar
"Possum" Carvidi: Banjo, Vocals
Col. Timothy Leather: Upright Bass
Steven "Your Uncle" Dodds: Drums

After 125 songs penned in Raww’s blood and five albums later, the original members tour across the United States and Europe bringing their cantankerous horrorbilly/bloodgrass sound and malcontent melodies to worldwide fans eager for some dancing, drinking and stabbing.

01. [2005] Arkansas Killing Time

01 - Skin & Bones Lady
02 - 56, Ar
03 - Arkansas Killing Time
04 - The Hateful Thing
05 - Weary Friend
06 - I Kept Her Heart
07 - Just A Crush
08 - I Had To Cut Her
09 - Bucket Of Guts
10 - New Moon
11 - The Beauty In Her Face
12 - Your Shadow
13 - The Moon Moves The Waters
14 - Bakersfield

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02. [2006] Stab!

01 - Stab
02 - The Crow
03 - West Memphis Daddy
04 - The Tardy Hearse
05 - Will You Remember Me?
06 - I Got Excited
07 - Garden Of Stars
08 - The Wedding Gown
09 - More Pride Than Priors
10 - Prestor John In Appalachia
11 - Mr. Skeleton
12 - Rattling Chains
13 - Great Journey

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03. [2007] Hootin' & Hollerin' Volume 2 Live At Thee Parkside 20 July 2006

Recorded by Dr. Astronaut Body on July 20th, 2006 at Thee Parkside in San Francisco, California.

NOTE: this low-tech recording, of a particularly rowdy show at a high point in the band's evolution, is presented to you despite certain problems inherent in the two-track master (such as the fluctuating levels or your inability to hear the guitar very well during the second half of the show). The show is presented as-is, with no EQ or remastering, in the hope that your enjoyment is more "authentic". Caveat emptor.

01 - Arkansas Killing Time
02 - West Memphis Daddy
03 - The Crow
04 - The Tardy Hearse
05 - Just A Crush
06 - Mr. Skeleton
07 - Prester John In Appalachia
08 - I Got Excited
09 - Waltzing Through The Graveyard
10 - More Pride Than Priors
11 - Introducing Jason Kleinberg/Tuning A String
12 - Rattlin' Charms
13 - The Dirty Drinking Song
14 - I Kept Her Heart
15 - The Hateful Thing
16 - Stab!
17 - Great Journey
18 - Pretty Polly
19 - Once In A Lifetime

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04. [2008] Child Of Calamity

01 - The Child Of Calamity
02 - Pardon Me Ginger
03 - Pukin' Blood, Spittin' Teeth, Bein' High
04 - An Unkindness
05 - Hair Of Gold
06 - O, Mercy, O, Meredith
07 - The Undertaker's Prayer
08 - Don't Ask Me To Stop
09 - The Maiden's Eye
10 - Dark Of The Holler
11 - The Gravedigger
12 - A Ship Lost at Sea
13 - To The Blue
14 - The Pallbearers

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05. [2011] Tales From The Emancipated Head

01 - Introduction
02 - Theme From The Emancipated Head
03 - Pretty Little Girl
04 - Frankenstein
05 - I Was A Teenage Necro
06 - Waltzing Through The Graveyard
07 - Live Brains
08 - No Room Left For Barbara
09 - Massacre On Confusion Hill
10 - The Weeper
11 - The Doomer
12 - Blood
13 - A.M. Radio Floating In Blood
14 - The Funeral

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06. [2016] The Feast Of Three Arms

01 - Introduction: Feast Of Three Arms Toast
02 - Mama Had A Third Arm
03 - It's Comfy In My Coffin
04 - That Boy Is Trouble Pt II
05 - Parmalene With Arms Of Three
06 - Crow Feathers
07 - I Killed The Band
08 - Our Christian Duty
09 - Mighty Mighty Preacher
10 - Judge
11 - Rise
12 - Dog Named Death
13 - Meet My Wife
14 - Blameless
15 - Rushee Roolet
16 - River
17 - Bury Me

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