Those Poor Bastards are an American gothic country doom band based in Madison, Wisconsin, USA and play miserable and primitive old-time gothic country music. Since 2004 they have released eleven full-length studio albums, six EPs and have toured extensively in both North America and Europe. They are frequently critical of commercial mainstream country music, and play a style that derives more from gothic rock, cowpunk, traditional Americana and doom metal. Their lyrics focus on themes of sin, damnation, misery, religion and death.
The band is composed of Lonesome Wyatt (Vocals, Guitar) and The Minister (Banjo, Bass, Percussion, Backing Vocals). They are secretive and reveal very little information publicly about themselves except for the fact that both are legally certified holiness preachers. The Minister veils his face in all official band photography, does not perform live and has not revealed his public identity. For live performances, Wyatt performs with another musician, Vincent Presley, on Drums and Keyboard.
If you’re looking for slick, over-produced, commercial songs, you’d better cover your delicate little ears. Those Poor Bastards play it raw and they play it mean.
"Those Poor Bastards own a unique sound that only touches the edges of traditional roots music, a sound that repeatedly smashes the molds that have shaped country and blues for nearly a hundred years. It’s a sound that was decidedly born too late, for it seems to long for a time its creators never knew, a simpler, more primitive time. Rather than commit itself entirely to the time in which we presently live, their sound finds itself treading through the stinking gutter of a Depression era alleyway, only to sit amongst other lost souls, all of them sitting around a mighty fire burning in the guts of a metal waste container. They proceed to pick up guitars, banjos, fiddles, buckets for percussion, and various other instruments, some homemade, some not, and play song after song as if their very lives depended upon it. And throughout the night it evolves into a sound as dark as a winter night, as sharp as a rattler's fang, as vicious as a meth lab guard dog, as bizarre as a pack of sideshow carnies, and as full of fire and brimstone as an evangelical preacher of the South's sweaty Bible Belt." — No Depression
"Those Poor Bastards are the best Gothic Country I have heard yet to this day. The depressing gloomy vocals coming out of this drifter named Lonesome Wyatt has hints of Marilyn Manson to Nick Cave, Throwrag and maybe even a hint of a demented Adam Ant with a shot of a pilled up Johnny Cash… And the Minister is backing up Lonesome Wyatt with a style that is a cross between eerie strung out folk music with a creepy blend of The Nightmare Before Christmas!!!!!!!!!" - Hank III
01 - [2004] Country Bullshit EP
01 - Raw & Bleeding
02 - The Accident
03 - Black Dog Yodel
04 - Pills I Took
05 - Radio Country
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02 - [2005] Songs Of Desperation
01 - This Is Desperation
02 - With Hell So Near
03 - They Don't Make Folks Like They Used To
04 - Shadows Fall
05 - Drunk With Fear
06 - Deep In The Mud
07 - My Last Dollar
08 - A Bone To Pick
09 - Among The Pines
10 - Death Ain't You Got No Shame?
11 - Drown In The River
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03 - [2007] Hellfire Hymns
01 - The Dust Storm
02 - Where She Been?
03 - John Henry Gonna
04 - God Damned Me
05 - Behold Black Sheep
06 - Have I Been Faithful?
07 - The Hellbound Train
08 - There's Gotta Be Something Better
09 - Ruin My Life
10 - Blood On My Hands
11 - Family Graveyard
12 - Stay Away From The Forest Boy
13 - In The Backwoods
14 - Farewell Happy Fields
15 - Lost On The Way
16 - Everything Is Gone
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04 - [2008] The Plague
01 - Sick & Alone
02 - Black Lightning
03 - Barn Burning
04 - A Curse
05 - Evil On My Mind
06 - I Cannot Escape The Darkness
07 - The Plague
08 - You Belong To Me
09 - Old Pine Box
10 - Dead Winter Moon
11 - Nightmare Lullaby
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05 - [2008] Satan Is Watching
01 - This World Is Evil
02 - Crooked Man
03 - Doggone
04 - Ain't You Gonna Cry
05 - Swallowed By Sin
06 - I Will Bring You Dead Flowers
07 - I Walk The Line
08 - Hoist That Skirt
09 - Fear
10 - These Are Hard Times
11 - The Bright Side
12 - No One
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06 - [2009] Black Dog Yodel (7" With Skelton)
Skelton is the alias used by Hank III for this single.
01 - Black Dog Yodel (Acoustic)
02 - Black Dog Yodel (Live)
03 - They Don't Make Folks Like They Used To (Live)
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07 - [2009] Abominations EP
01 - Nightmare World
02 - Abomination
03 - Ghosts!
04 - Dead Trees Reaching
05 - The Party's Over
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08 - [2010] Gospel Haunted
01 - Glory Amen
02 - Judgement Is Coming
03 - At The Crossroads
04 - Serpents
05 - A Secret
06 - Chemical Church
07 - Mess Around
08 - Open Wounds
09 - Wealth Is Death
10 - Forgive Me Matilda
11 - Ill At Ease
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09 - [2010] Gospel Outtakes 7"
01 - The Stranger
02 - Burden Of Sin
03 - Holy Book
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10 - [2011] Is This Hell? 7"
01 - Is This Hell?
02 - Move On Maggot
03 - Hauntings
04 - Forever Poor
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11 - [2012] Behold The Abyss
01 - Thee Beginning
02 - He Of Cloven Hoof
03 - A Robe Of Scarlet Thread
04 - Old Red
05 - My Beautiful Knife
06 - Phantom Pool
07 - Guilt
08 - Find Me A Gal
09 - Everything Is Temporary
10 - Your Faith Shall Be Tested
11 - Sacrificial Lamb
12 - God's Dark Heaven
13 - Thee End
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12 - [2014] Vicious Losers
01 - I Am Lost
02 - Getting Old
03 - Let Us Rot
04 - Give Me Drugs
05 - All Dolled Up
06 - Lonely Man
07 - Strange Dark Night
08 - Born To Preach
09 - Big Trees
10 - The Only Time
11 - Trouble At Home
12 - Loser's Prayer
13 - Today I Saw My Funeral
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13 - [2016] Sing It Ugly
01 - No Light
02 - Unwanted
03 - Headed Nowhere
04 - Sorry For Everything
05 - Hound's Bone
06 - Ten Ton Hammer
07 - Mysterious Things
08 - Evil Selfish Fool
09 - No No No
10 - Beat Your Heart
11 - Bones And Ivy
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14 - [2016] Necrosphere EP
01 - Black God Forest
02 - Necrosphere
03 - Satan Is Dead
04 - Indian Scalp
05 - We're All Swine
06 - Muchos Muertos
07 - Everybody Dies
08 - Dead Meat
09 - Meet Your Unmaker
10 - Forsaken By Satan
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15 - [2018] Inhuman Nature
01 - Snake Tongued Deceiver
02 - Cult Of Loneliness
03 - Vengeance Trail
04 - Mosaic Law
05 - Never Your Soul
06 - Heap Bad Medicine
07 - Gates Of Hell
08 - Lonely Dreams
09 - Lord Lift This Burden
10 - I Want To Disappear
11 - Blow Wind
12 - Scaffold Blues
13 - Inhuman Nature
14 - Human Jackals
15 - Can't Stop Crying
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16 - [2019] Evil Seeds
01 - One Of Us
02 - Something Evil
03 - Every Lonesome Song
04 - Just Tonight
05 - Avalanche, You Killed Me
06 - Heaven's Too Far
07 - Wake Up In The Gutter
08 - So Ashamed
09 - Neglected Wife
10 - Sick Sick
11 - Pay The Viper
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17 - [2021] Old Time Suffering
01 - Chopping Wood For Winter
02 - Crime Doesn't Pay
03 - These Bones Gonna Rise Again
04 - Tobacco's But An Indian Weed
05 - Hayseed Like Me
06 - Grief Hits Hard
07 - Beware, Take Care
08 - Oh Henrietta
09 - The One Mother Warned Me About
10 - Wicked Polly
11 - Poor Rambler
12 - Out On The Range
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