Time: 63:44
Size: 145.9 MB
Styles: Juke joint blues
Year: 2014
Art: Front
[6:01] 1. All My Good Drugs
[5:31] 2. Listerine (Never Been Clean)
[5:06] 3. Whiskey & Cocaine
[8:03] 4. Old Milwaukee
[4:15] 5. You'll Be Blue
[5:27] 6. Governor Of Your Pants
[7:26] 7. Real Tight Pussy
[6:59] 8. Dr. Chocolate
[9:20] 9. Feel My Balls
[5:31] 10. Encore (Live. Not The Studio Encore)
The Story: Coldcock Jones & Lightnin' Deuce Rooster formed The Buttermilk 5 in Peoria, IL in 1958 when they released their debut album, "Stop, Drop & Boogie." Their sophomore release, ten years later, "O' Lord the Things I Done," flopped because they couldn't fit enough albums in the trunk of the Zephyr. There may have been another album around that time. The band resurfaced in 1972 or 1973 with a live album recorded in St. Louis. Chuck Berry fought to have production of the album halted, as he found it stupid, but album was pressed and no one bought it. "Live At St. Louis '72" (or '73) sold 5 or 6 units before the band's bass player, LaVel Brown, left the remaining albums at a music venue. Some shithole in Pekin (Illinois, not China). Coldcock and Lightnin' both worked plenty of solo projects, but with only 8 or 9 blues musicians in Peoria, things moved slowly until they reunited in prison early in 1979. This lead to the creation of Buttermilk 5 Christmas album, "Christmas At Stateville," which was released for charity in 1980. In Spring of 2006, Coldcock woke up in Chicago. Unable to find a ride back to Peoria, he took residence with Chicago rock band, The Last Vegas, and began recruiting musicians and doing a lot of drugs while watching Canadian television programming. When he found the right drugs and musicians, The Shithawks were hatched... and shit on everything. In 2012, right when the band gelled, Coldcock found himself living in Austin, TX for some reason. Some say he couldn't understand a city on a lake and had to find him a river town. Some say Lefty split for Ohio. Wrong story. Don't care. Coldcock is cooking up something that is about to be unleashed and you'll be left to digest it. Wondering what the truth is. The truth is so unimportant. Let it go. We do the biting, you do the digesting. The facts: Coldcock Jones is Nick Roseman (b. 1976), a native of Lexington, Illinois. Raised on a farm and more interested in baseball than music, he had quit Jr. High band and piano lessons before becoming intrigued by the prospect of playing guitar like Malcolm Young of AC/DC. In 1996, he moved down the road to Bloomington/Normal, attending community college, delivering pizzas and he began to transfer his energy from baseball to playing and recording music with various punk bands around town. The emphasis was on weirdness and angst. Roseman and Dave Moe created The Buttermilk 5 in Peoria sometime in 2000 as an alias to create vintage-sounding blues albums. The desire was for very raw, blunt-force tongue-in-cheek material solely for albums to be passed off as long-lost local blues legends. In 2006, Roseman moved to Chicago and the following year, and Moe soon after to Kalamazoo. Roseman, assembled The Shithawks as a backing band for Coldcock Jones. The band consisted of borrowed musicians from local bands associated with The Double Door music venue, where he was working. Guitarists Aaron Bakker and Anthony Rubino were both interested in forming the blues band, so both were included. Drummer, and Double Door barback, Mike Mazzola agreed to participate and soon after, Adam Arling, of The Last Vegas, offered to handle the bass. The first show was at Double Door on May 16, 2007. Rubino and Arling were both members of the frequently touring, The Last Vegas, and Bakker and Mazzola were both members of multiple bands, so it was agreed that the lineup would be fluid, to accomodate for absent band members. Most of the original material was composed by Dave Moe and/or Roseman. That lineup recorded the debut release, "69 Greatest Hits EP," with Vince Casamatta at the now-defunct Southside Studeios in Chicago. The next two years saw various lineups and little songwriting, before the band evolved into a lineup of Rubino & Bakker on guitar, until Bakker split for LA. On harmonica and backing vocals, fill-in Shithawk, Calvin Conway gained full-time status. Replacing Arling on bass were a combo of bass players, both partially available and favored by Coldcock. One, Justin Miller, another Bloomington/Normal transplant from the band All Eyes West, and the other, another Double Door employee, Eric Kratz (Lasers and Fast and Shit). On drums, Danny Severson (Suffrajett, Dorian Taj) took over the duties. A frequent ally and contributor, Dorian Taj, often performed with the band on keys and guitar. When not on stage with The Shithawks, Roseman could be found singing as Bon Scott with the AC/DC tribute, Black Angus, or as Ozzy Osbourne with the Black Sabbath tribute, Vol 4. In March, 2012, Roseman moved to Austin, TX. Since then, he recorded and released the solo album, Gospels of Moderation. While playing occasional shows with The Shithawks in Chicago and Austin, a new backing band based in Austin is expected soon.
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