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“Run” is Out Now
Whiskey Basterds’ fans, get ready to crank up the volume because the band’s latest single, “RUN,” is out now! This new song is packed with the same infectious energy and killer sound that you’ve come to expect from these guys.
You can listen to “RUN” on Spotify, Apple Music and everywhere music can be streamed, right now. Cheers!
New in 2022! “Lay It All Down” available now from Black Tooth Productions!
An earthly epilogue draws to a close. Wrestling with the Universe’s final summons, the Soul strains in a cantata of regret, repentance, resignation and then, delirious release into the What awaits…
“Lay It All Down” is the latest single from Whiskey Basterds. Featuring the haunting vocals of Tegan Taylor, and Wurly and Hammond B3 magic from Dan Long (Montana Wildaxe, Echoes), the track is available on iTunes in 24-bit high-resolution Apple Digital Master format, and in standard digital format from Spotify, Amazon Music, and all of the usual digital distribution suspects.
“Mississippi Mud” – New Single Out Now!
The new roots-rock single “Mississippi Mud” from Whiskey Basterds is out now. The track features the barn-burning fiddle of Jason Roller (Alabama, Dave Mason, Dolly Parton), and is available on iTunes in 24-bit high-resolution Apple Digital Master format and in standard digital formats on Spotify, Amazon Music, etc.
Produced and mixed by Ken Eros
Eros Creative and Sound — Ojai, CA
Recorded by John Roulette and Jason Roller
Mastered by Scott Hull
Masterdisk — Peekskill, NY
Cover Photography by Anna Webber
“Wait For You” Music Video Premiere
Whiskey Basterds have just released their first music video, for the single “Wait for You”. The band teamed up with Anna Webber to create a visually stunning portrayal of the song. Watch it on YouTube.
Relix Magazine features “Sweet Kathleen”
What do My Morning Jacket and Whiskey Basterds have in common you ask? Well, they are both featured in the September 2020 issue of Relix Magazine.
Check out track 8 on the Artist Sampler Playlist from Relix Magazine on Spotify to hear the Whiskey Basterds’ track “Sweet Kathleen” (from their 2019 release Redemption on Main St.) in its entirety.
Lots of great bands alongside in this issue, so have a listen!
Photo by Anna Webber
New in 2020 — “Wait for You”
“Wait for You” — the new single from Whiskey Basterds — is now available on iTunes in 24-bit high-resolution Apple Digital Master format, and in standard digital formats on Spotify, Amazon Music, etc.
Produced by Ken Eros and April Theriault
Recorded and Mixed by Ken Eros
Eros Creative and Sound — Ojai, CA
Mastered by Scott Hull
Masterdisk — Peekskill, NY
Cover Photography by Anna Webber
Redemption on Main St.
Whiskey Basterds’ debut album Redemption on Main St., is now available! Written over the course of three years in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Ojai, CA, it was produced by Ken Eros and April Theriault, recorded and mixed at Eros Creative and Sound, and mastered by Eric Boulanger at The Bakery.
Album Photography by Anna Webber
Album Artwork by WebberSites
ALBUM
REDEMPTION ON MAIN ST.
1. Caxton Gibbet (5:20)
2. Last Shot (4:03)
3. Love Ray (4:14)
4. Sweet Kathleen (5:52)
5. Hold On (4:58)
6. Old Crow (4:31)
7. Road That I Am On (5:34)
8. It’s Gonna Happen (4:45)
9. Swan Dive (4:38)
10. Here to Stay (4:29)
11. Talk to Me (5:06)
12. Hangover Blues (3:37)
While deeply rooted in Americana music, the Whiskey Basterds are open to exploring wherever the Muses lead them, giving rise to new expressions of their sonic heritage ⎯ from folk to funk to blues, rock and beyond.
With tracks such as “Sweet Kathleen”, “Love Ray”, “Old Crow”, “Last Shot” and “Here to Stay”, the Whiskey Basterds’ debut album Redemption on Main St. presents songs wrought from blood, sweat, tears and the occasional wee dram of brown liquor.
Pour yourself a glass, sit back and let the music wash over you.
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Filmed & Directed By Anna Webber
Actress Helen Henning, Camera operator Austin Nelson, Hair/Makeup/Wardrobe by Ruby Tecson.
Filmed & Directed By Anna Webber
Dolly Camera by Austin Nelson, Hair/Makeup/Wardrobe by Ruby Tecson.
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Biography
Songwriters Michael Shonafelt and Jon B. Wilder never planned to make music. Sitting down one night five years ago with two guitars and a bottle of whiskey, they stumbled over a kind of musical alchemy.
They have never looked back.
After years of friendship, and having already traversed their separate passages in life, love and loss, Shonafelt and Wilder realized their wildly disparate musical influences were not incompatible. Shonafelt, a bluegrass banjo-playing and newly-minted folk guitarist, took up vocal and rhythm guitar duties, while Wilder darted in-and-out of the tunes with British Invasion influenced melody stabs and blues-rock stings that sounded organic, sweet… complete!
The Whiskey Basterds were born.
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‘The Whiskey Basterds’ new single, Wait for You, follows on the heels of their debut album, Redemption on Main St. It takes you on an intimate, acoustic journey into the corridors of loss, loneliness and the numbness that gathers around the moment of realizing that love may not call again.’
– Relix Magazine
‘… an electric rock ‘n roll trip through the dark side.’
– Liz Cady, Americana Highways
‘Whiskey Basterds remind us that it is the tree’s abiding roots
that bring the season’s new fruit.’
– Egbert Snicklepod IV
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