WHISKEY FOLK RAMBLERS

From Dallas, Texas the Whiskey Folk Ramblers create music of a new sound. It's some strange, unexplored sub-genre of indie-country. Part spaghetti-western, part eastern-european folk, melded with dancehall country and with undertones of american folk and bluegrass. The style could be called Western Gypsy or Gypsy Americana.

Picked apart, you can find influences from Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash to wandering bands of gypsies in the desert. The instrumentation gives one a sense of the Appalachians, but you'd be hard-pressed to call it bluegrass. Close your eyes and you'll imagine the dusty lone gunfighter pushing through a saloon door in a Sergio Leone film.

Whiskey Folk Ramblers have been compared to the likes of contemporaries Gogol Bordello, DeVotchKa, the Pogues, Old 97's & Tom Waits.

Like the soundtrack to a spaghetti western set in the Dust Bowl, Whiskey Folk Rambler's "folk noir" blends ominous, reverb-dripping guitars with boot-stomping train beats and funereal horns to create sonic backdrops for down-on-your-luck ballads and beer-soaked anthems.

Their music is the sound of a union meeting at its drunkest, of a last-resort robbery gone awry, of mice and men and the lengths they'll go to forget about their troubles. From catchy singalongs to moody shuffles, Whiskey Folk Rambler's sound takes American roots music down a road less traveled, where even the Devil might be waiting to raise a toast. ~ Steve Steward

The Ramblers sound like something you might have heard around the bonfire if a gypsy caravan and a cattle drive happened to cross trails and ended up sharing a barrel or two of whiskey. ~ Jesse Hughey, Dallas Observer

01. [2008] Midnight Drifter

01 - Intro
02 - Ramblin' Man
03 - River Song
04 - Graveyard Line
05 - Goin' Where I Don't Know
06 - Moanin' Rag
07 - I'll Be On My Way
08 - Great Grandson
09 - As We Drive By
10 - Die Easy
11 - Midnight Drifter
12 - Remington .45 Blues
13 - Outro

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02. [2010] ...and there are devils

01 - The Penitent
02 - Gambling Preacher And His Daughter
03 - Easy Climb
04 - Pies Of Old Kylene
05 - Into That Slide
06 - Horrors In The Kitchen
07 - Concrete Bed
08 - My Rolling Wino
09 - Elevator Music
10 - Curtains
11 - Sweet Waters
12 - Night Of The Indian Man Morning

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03. [2013] The Lonesome Underground

01 - Oh, St. Jude
02 - Long Way Back
03 - Lights On The Highway
04 - Drink The Bottle Dry
05 - Mad Man's Eyes
06 - If I Were Around
07 - Bad Rise
08 - Leavin' Here
09 - 2025
10 - Cross City Trade
11 - Can You Drive My Car
12 - Come Down Tonight
13 - Letters To Rosemary
14 - Old Lost Tears

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04. [2016] Just Like Heaven

01 - Just Like Heaven

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05. [2017] Goin' Back To Clarksdale (feat. Jenna Clark)

01 - Goin' Back To Clarksdale (feat. Jenna Clark)

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