Inspired by such great compilation like Country Got Soul, Delta Swamp Rock and Country Funk!
Comin’ right up, a steaming gumbo of down home, honey drippin’ Voodoo-Soul and rough-fried funky Blues with a large side order of countrified brain salad and gritty Southern Rock. These compilations encompass the elation of gospel with the sexual thrust of the blues, country hoedown harmony with inner city grit. It is alternately playful and melancholic, slow jammin’ and booty shakin’. It is both studio slick and barroom raw. And while these all may seem unlikely combinations at first glance, upon close listen, it all makes sweet sense.
Follow the Love Rustler train through the landscape of blues and country with stops in Jackson, Mississippi. Memphis, Tennessee. New Orleans, Louisiana. Big Rock, Arkansas. Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Old Funk, Georgia. The legendary south of country preachers, forgotten jailhouses, rowdy juke joints and jaded dreams of salvation.
The tunes are from the glorious era between 1970 and 1975 with some years plus and few minus. We found the best tunes on albums you thought you knew and searched a lot of relatively unknown bands and releases for exceptional tunage. If sonically imperfect we had the tracks mastered and listened to the bunch endlessly to achieve the perfect flow.
The Love Rustler recommends: “Pour yourself a drink and keep on chooglin’!”
Volume 23/Silver Dagger comes as CD-R and features 20 tracks and 79 minutes of music. It comes with a cover- and traycard in a normal jewelbox. The CD label is printed. Limited to 50 copies.
Keep On Chooglin' - Vol. 23 / Silver Dagger
1. Stoney LaRue - Hill Country Boogaloo
2. Brent Cobb - .30-60
3. Holman Autry Band - Sweet Southern Wind
4. Charley Crockett - Silver Dagger
5. Chad McBride And The Drifters - Lone Star State
6. Allman Brothers Band - Louisiana Lou & Three Card Monty John
7. Southern Rains - Black Water Bayou
8. The Marshall Tucker Band - Hillbilly Band
9. Eric Lee Beddingfield - This Life Ain't For Everybody
10. Eat A Peach - Looking For A Rider
11. The Remus Tucker Band - Bury Me On The Banks Of The Mississippi River
12. Alligator Jackson - Southern BBQ
13. The Winter Brothers Band - Family Crowd
14. Lynyrd Skynyrd - On The Hunt
15. Judge Parker - Slow Down Irene
16. Bishop Black - Long Road To Bama
17. Brothers Phelps - Down In The Muddy Water
18. Cathouse Prophets - Freight Shaker
19. George Hatcher Band - Forty Ford
20. Matt Poss - Hellbound