In common with many other folk who have music blogs, there are certain words that you pick out when a song or album arrives in your in-box. The truth is some like “remix”, “electro”, “synth-pop”, “house”, “drum & bass”, and similar are unlikely to make it to the top of our pile anytime soon – not because they’re necessarily bad, not by any means, it is just not the sort of music that we really listen to or know much about.

Conversely when we receive something that simply says, “A cocktail of dirty western roots music and country tinged parlor tunes that spikes raw rebellion into the veins of American music with the dust of the Idaho back roads.”, we’re immediately interested picturing bandits and outlaws, deserts and gunfights, whiskey fuelled arguments and bar-room brawls, lost loves and lost lives and all things in between.

It makes us want to listen!

And so it is with Old Death Whisper (who take their name from the novel Fup by Jim Dodge and refers to Grandaddy Jake Santee’s moonshine recipe thought to give eternal life), and and their self-titled EP. A Johnny Cash twang, a honky-tonk rumble, and plaintive stories of lost hearts, lost minds, pills and whiskey.

What’s not to like?

Visit their website here.

Download Old Death Whisper – Rebels mp3 (from Old Death Whisper EP)