Johnny Moeller, Jesse Dayton, Ian Moore - Texas Headhunters

Size: 94.8 MB
Time: 40:13
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2025
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Pocket (3:55)
02. Maggie Went Back To Mineola (2:56)
03. Everybody Loves You (When You're Down) (2:39)
04. Kathleen (4:18)
05. Fool Don't Play With Fire (3:02)
06. Headhunters Theme (3:17)
07. Gun Barrel Boogie (4:02)
08. Independence Day (3:25)
09. Seeing Around Corners (3:37)
10. Who Will Your Next Lover Be? (3:28)
11. Gimme Some Love (3:15)
12. Burnin' Daylight (2:14)

Texas Headhunters is what happens when three of Texas’ fiercest guitar slingers – Ian Moore, Johnny Moeller, and Jesse Dayton – finally collide on the same stage. Born from deep roots, old friendships, and a shared reverence for the swaggering soul of Texas blues, this is not your average jam. It’s a movement. A reckoning. A new chapter in the book of American roots music.

Each member carries serious pedigree: Moore’s psychedelic fire, Moeller’s deep-pocket sting, and Dayton’s outlaw storytelling have powered everything from The Fabulous Thunderbirds to Austin’s Antone’s legacy to Grammy-nominated collaborations and cult favorite solo records. Individually, they’ve blazed trails. Together, they’re setting the whole damn map on fire.

This isn’t a tribute, and it’s not nostalgia – it’s a revival with teeth. With roots tracing back to Antone’s and the late Clifford Antone’s last wave of discoveries, the Headhunters are here to remind the world what Texas blues was, is, and still can be.

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Jesse Dayton - The Hard Way Blues

Album: The Hard Way Blues
Size: 80,6 MB
Time: 34:49
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2024
Styles: Blues/Rock/Americana mix
Art: Front

1. The Hard Way (3:37)
2. Night Brain (3:24)
3. Talkin' Company Man Blues (4:10)
4. Baby's Long Gone (3:16)
5. Navasota (3:16)
6. Ballad Of Boyd Elder (3:07)
7. Angel In My Pocket (3:14)
8. Huntsville Prison Rodeo (3:51)
9. Esther Pearl (3:45)
10. God Ain't Makin' No More Of It (3:05)

“Could have took their advice for an easier life but I guess I never did…I did it the hard way,” sings Jesse Dayton on the opening title track of his first solo offering in three years. While the song isn’t autobiographical, those lyrics can also reference his career. The past few years have been busy for the man who called a previous album The Outsider, a perfect description of the Texas born and bred musician’s long and winding journey. Although he’s had his share of success on what even he would consider an eclectic and bumpy career path since 1995s solo debut, Dayton likely never expected to be a Grammy nominated artist.

But that’s what happened courtesy of 2023s Death Wish Blues, his successful collaboration with blues rocker Samantha Fish. Still, Dayton’s wildly eclectic mix of roots rock, rockabilly, country, hard rock, blues and punk (what other musician has worked with Waylon Jennings, Brennen Leigh, Rob Zombie and X?) is no one’s blueprint of a path to being nominated for one of music’s most prestigious awards. Some of those genres are represented on the Shooter Jennings’ produced The Hard Way Blues, a collection Dayton explains is “custom built for bigger stages, not beer joints.”

From the raw Delta blues stylings of “Night Brain” (one of the few songs written about the frustrations of insomnia) to the country strains of “Huntsville Prison Rodeo” and the tender singer/songwriter tendrils of “Angel in My Pocket” (about a good luck charm he carries that helped “pick myself back up more times than I’ve been knocked down”), Dayton delivers potent originals with tough, honest vocals making everything sound like a lived-through experience.

The story-song “Baby’s Long Gone,” starts with a folksy acoustic opening, suddenly changing to harder rocking at its halfway point, before returning to unplugged, concluding the account of the one that got away, leaving him with a beautiful child. That’s plenty of territory to cover in just over three minutes. We also get a history lesson on the poignant “Esther Pearl,” a tale of the titular woman who helped Haitian slaves connect with the Underground Railroad in the mid-1800s. Ending the disc is the gutsy rocking “God Ain’t Making No More of It” as the singer/songwriter/guitarist talks/howls/hollers through various bad situations ending each verse with the song’s title before and after whipping off a searing guitar solo.

It perfectly wraps a set that traverses a lot of territory in just over a half hour. Anyone who has seen Dayton live knows he never does anything halfway, a trait also applicable to these performances. He sticks with the same backing trio throughout, which includes Jennings on keyboards, attacks every song with his booming baritone like it’s the last one he’ll sing, and writes tight, taut tracks (only one breaks four minutes) that explode out of the speakers with fire, fury and occasional humor. Dayton is finally riding a wave of popularity he always deserved but might not have expected. The swaggering confidence exhibited throughout The Hard Way Blues, makes it the release that ought to, after 30 years in the roots rock trenches, launch him to the next level. /Hal Horowitz, Rock & Blues Muse

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Samantha Fish & Jesse Dayton - Death Wish Blues

Size: 92.0 MB
Time: 38:59
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2023
Styles: Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Deathwish (2:39)
02. Down In The Mud (2:52)
03. Riders (3:40)
04. Settle For Less (3:09)
05. Trauma (3:06)
06. No Apology (4:16)
07. Flooded Love (2:39)
08. Lover On The Side (2:48)
09. Rippin' And Runnin' (4:21)
10. Dangerous People (3:31)
11. Supadupabad (2:06)
12. Know My Heart (3:47)

The first-ever collaborative album from Samantha Fish and Jesse Dayton, Death Wish Blues is a body of work born from a shared passion for pushing the limits of blues music. Produced by the legendary Jon Spencer of Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Death Wish Blues melds their eclectic sensibilities into a batch of songs both emotionally potent and wildly combustible and helps fulfill their shared longtime mission of opening the blues genre to entirely new audiences.

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Samantha Fish & Jesse Dayton - The Stardust Sessions EP

Size: 59 MB
Time: 9:06
File: FLAC
Released: 2022
Styles: Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Brand New Cadillac (2:37)
02. Feelin' Good (2:24)
03. I'll Be Here In The Morning (4:04)

Guitar badass Samantha Fish and outlaw country maverick Jesse Dayton have released their first collaborative effort, ‘The Stardust Sessions.’ This EP is available digitally HERE.
It started out as an innocent co-writing session between the two musicians. They envisioned a sound that married the explosive blues with alt-rock. On the last day in their New Orleans studio, they jammed on some songs that embodied this musical aesthetic and were eager to hear how their voices and guitars meshed. So, they let tape roll, and the unexpected result was “The Stardust Sessions.” The pair recorded “Brand New Cadillac,” made famous by The Clash but originally written in the late 1950s by Vince Taylor, “I’ll Be Here in The Morning” by Townes Van Zandt, and “Feelin’ Good” by Magic Sam.

Joining them in the studio were bassist Austin Clements (Omari Neville), and drummer Mike Dillon (Rickie Lee Jones, Les Claypool Garage Jazz Band), with Rueben Williams wearing the producer’s hat. “The Stardust Sessions” will precede a full-length album containing 10 new original songs written by the pair and produced by the legendary Jon Spencer. The album, “Death Wish Blues,” will be released in late spring via Rounder Records.

Fish and Dayton plan on unleashing the three new cover songs in concert as well as unveiling several of their new tunes that will see the light of day with the release of Death Wish Blues.

An award-winning singer, songwriter, and lead guitarist, Samantha Fish has released six albums over the course of her acclaimed career, with 2019’s Faster and 2021’s Kill or Be Kind both appearing on Rounder Records. “It’s not pure rock and roll, it’s not pure blues, it’s not pure soul, it’s not pure pop — it’s a mixture of everything,” she says of her genre-bending sound, which has regularly taken Fish around the world. A road warrior, she performs 200 shows yearly, both domestically and abroad.

Jesse Dayton has been bringing his unique mashup of East Texas/Louisiana Blues, old-school country, and punk rock to the world since he released his debut album in 1995. Thirteen records later, he remains a staple on SiriusXM’s Outlaw Country and the Americana Radio charts, where his debut LP Raising Cain reached Number 1. Jesse’s career reads like a veritable “who’s who” of American music. He’s toured with Social Distortion, Supersuckers, George Strait, Ryan Bingham, and L.A. punk pioneers X and has recorded with legends such as Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Glen Campbell, and Willie Nelson. He has also recorded three soundtracks for filmmaker Rob Zombie. One can read about Dayton’s storied past in his 2022 memoir, Beaumonster.

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