Rhode Island residents The Benedictions play what is often called called devil music. They must do because their just released album is called The Benedictions Play Devil Music.

On this occasion it’s hard folk, hard blues, hard country. It conjures images of grizzled old timers with whiskey eyes stamping their boots on beer-soaked wooden floors before heading back out into the dusty desert. It is authentic, powerful and not for the faint-hearted.

Check out the galloping Lonesome Tears and see if we’re not right.

Visit their MySpace here. Buy from cdbaby here.

Download The Benedictions – Lonesome Tears mp3 (from The Benedictions Play Devil Music)