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Shoeshine

So, we’ve been doing some recording in the past few months, and hope to continue with that trend.  We decided to give you guys a little sneak peek at one of the tracks we were working on: Shoeshine.  It’s a track that was written last late fall/early winter, which is surprising considering its nice summer chug.  It’s a quick song, clocking in at under 2 1/2 minutes, a trend that is following our recently written material.  We seem to be focusing on tightly constructed songs that focus on a particular rhythm and don’t meander too far so as to leave the listener in the dust, checking some other song out before finishing the task at hand.  Kind of reminds me of Twain’s quote: Sorry for the long letter, I didn’t have time to write you a short one.

Anyways, the point I’m trying to make, is that we’re working on some new recorded material.  Planning on releasing a second EP after HiveSongs.

Reminder: we play June 15th at the Brillobox – hope to see you there.

 

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Things we’re friggin excited about

Here goes:

June 15th, we’ll be playing Brillobox with the Red Western.  Here’s a link to the facebook event.  Should be a good ole time, with plenty shuffling around and big Straubs going down.

We’ll also be playing at the end of June, the 26th more specifically, opening up for Pokey LaFarge at Club Cafe.  This’ll be a helluva show.  Real friggin excited about this one.  Pokey is on Third Man Records, the label Jack White started a while back in Detroit and now in Nashville, TN.  Whiskey drinking, needless to say, will easily be an encouraged activity for the night’s engagements.

In other news, the Whiskey Holler is working on recordings for some new tunes.

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check this out: this.  It’s the most popular pages on bandcamp with the pittsburgh tag.  great way to find out who’s making music around the whiskey holler.  cool to see some friends on there.

 

btw, the whiskey holler’s music is available to buy on iTunes and amazon and spotify.

 

also, follow us @whiskeyholler

Streaming

The Whiskey Holler’s brand new EP, HiveSongs, is out for permanent streaming at the bandcamp page.  There are fhive songs on it with all the lyrics posted.  We’re super-excited for all of you folks to hear it.  The album will be available for purchase starting April 6th at our release show at Howler’s Coyote Cafe.  We’re playing with Dazzletine and Meeting of Important People.  The place is seriously gonna melt. down.  All of those coming through the doors will receive a special prize.

HiveSongs

the whiskey holler is releasing a 5-track EP titled HiveSongs.  This is what the album cover looks like:

Danny Gurwin helped out with the artskills.  April 6th the Whiskey Holler plays at Howlers Coyote Cafe in celebration of the release, along with Dazzletine and Meeting of Important People.  Danny Gurwin will also be DJing. There should be endless amounts of rock and roll all night; a real good friday night.

Oh and check this out:

Bryan Heller made a video for us.  Check out our bandcamp for a sneak-peak at the tracks of the EP next sunday at 9pm.

Tall Tales

The whiskey holler was out the other night, or was it daytime?…i suppose that’s relative…from our perspective, i guess it was right in the middle of day and night – twilight, as it were, and we’d been walking for a while, just kinda talkin’ and lookin’ and sippin’ on a nice little bit of brown likkor out of a tin can with a spout, when we found a bridge, but it was one of those bridges not made for cars or bikes or any wheeled vehicles, considering there were staircases on either side, preventing any standard movement for, let’s say a scooter to make approaching the…footbridge, tha’s it, and anyways, we were right at the foot of this staircase that led to the footbridge, which went akross some train-tracks, cause usually a bridge is a way over something that needs to continue with what it’s doing without interruption: bridge over troubled water, for instance : and we’re hearing a train a’coming, coming ’round the bend, and we scoot all our behinds up that staircase and get into that caged entrapment of a bridge right as the train is coming, and at this point, it’s right underneath, coulda jumped into the passing cars, but instead threw some pennies, so ole’ Abe Lincoln could get a vacation outta our pockets, and he landed each time with a nice little…”dink” “d-dink-dink” “clink” jumping all mad-like around in those empty coal-carts, which we liked doing a whole awful lot, not too sure why, it wasn’t a free game, though not too considerable of a cost, and we were all smiling and laughing and sipping some more outta that tin can, when we ran outta copper and figured thom jefferson and his silver stallions were too valuable to waste on some locomotive who was too busy to even whistle at us – just the mockingbirds were whistling and that kinda teasing ain’t so fun, so we gathered ourselves and went back down the steps, watched as the train came a-rollin, down on to san antone…musta been the longest train we’d seen we decided, and when it finally stopped comin round the bend, it was next week, but we stayed there, talkin and lookin and sippin – that ole tin cup never did give up either – till there wasn’t nothin left but track, so we did what you do when you see train tracks, and that’s walk…walk…walk…walk…and we walked till we smelled something awful, so awful all eight individual eyes, four pairs on four folk, were all squinched up and we buried our noses into our elbows and the sides of our mouths bent down on either side like we were four cowboys looking at something real terrible, cause we were.

 

there was a white-tailed deer laying ever-so still on the track, well sort of.  he was laying on the track, but now, half a him was on one side, the other on the other, cut right down the damn middle.  we all got a little closer, inspecting and such, and passed the tin cup around, but she was empty from crying away all her whiskey, so we just stood there perplexed.  how did that sucker end up so torn like that?  we decided that the train had to keep doing what it was doing and there wasn’t no stopping.  that kinda drive forward is a powerful thing, something that can end up killing, at least in this instance.  we were smart enough to use that bridge, to not get in the way of something more powerful than we were.  so there’s gonna be those times, when somebody or something is gonna be barrelin on down towards you and you gotta decide, am i gonna let this mother go? or am i gonna stand in its way?  now, we’re not saying don’t stand up fer yerself, and we’re also not saying keep a blind drive forward.  we’re just saying, don’t bring a knife to a gun fight and don’t forget to keep yer eyes open all the time.

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that’s right. gimme that whiskey.  here’s a track from the Big Three Trio, featuring Chicago bluesman, Willie Dixon.  Besides being a musician, Dixon was a professional boxer and was a sparring partner for Joe Louis, world heavyweight champion from 1937-49.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here’s an old country track Dixon did:

 

 

Anyways, on the Hollering front, we’re getting things mixed and mastered, looking to have an EP you can hold in yer hands.  There’ll be five songs on it.  I hope to to see you listening to it…maybe we’ll post a track or two so you can get a taste on yer tongue, get you to want some more, thirsty/hungry, as it were, if you will.

 

ps. we’re appearing live next Friday, Dec 9, at the Shadow Lounge as part of the Human Rights Day Celebration.  It’s an early show, we go on at 6:45, so get yer Friday Happy Hour fix of the Whiskey Holler.  Joining the stage will be Pittsburgh’s favorite indie twee chamber band, SleepyV.

Thanksgiving

This year, the Whiskey Holler is thankful for you!

 

Happy Thanksgiving, eat a bunch of: