Punk blues might be dead.

[whataboutyounancy?]

remember when bands like the white stripes and henry and june weren't pretentious assholes. what happened to doin captain beefheart and son house songs? i've been on a kick lately digging through 45's and lurkin on myspace trying to find any bands who still have almost dead feeling. send me a link if you can help. the closest i've come is an obscure portland band who claims detroit as one of their influences. they're called SAMO and they do oneof the best covers of a son house track that i've maybe ever heard (almost as good as death letter). the rest of their songs are a little strange, but still good in their own way. myspace.com/samo333

[David James Brown]

Check out my baand Gun. We're based out of Northwest Indiana.

Here are some tracks from two of our releases.

www.bandcamp.indianagun.com

 

ENJOY.

[Pierrot Nancy]

what have the white stripes done "wrong"?

[BUG]

One more..? 2001 The Havox - 'Here Catch' album. Great cover of 'Willie the Wild One', well I think so!?

[The Pignose Willy's]

What about my band!

 

http://garagepunk.ning.com/profile/ThePignoseWillys

 

[Mole]

Check these dudes out:

http://www.myspace.com/thejooksofkent

[Catfish Jones]

Not dead, not sleepin', still alive just low down creepin'.

the VANES said:

Not dead.  Sleepin'.

[Mottey's Garage]

Punk Blues Dead!!!! Damn Kopper, I guess the timing of the show was bad...send me your punk blues boys and girls..lets keep this shit going

[John Battles]

 

 I don't think it's "Dead" , but , since Honeyboy Edwards passed , about a month ago , I DO feel The Blues is dead. Had a good run . I live in Chicago , where anything that has nothing to do with The Blues gets passed off as the real deal. Some people get close to it , but Honeyboy , and this is just my opinion , was the last of the greats.

As far as Punk Blues is concerned , I think it still has some life left in it , tho' I'm not crazy about some of the things I've heard.....Tijuana Hercules , who've been based in Chicago for at least 10 or 12 years , still play out on occasion , and they've got it. They are the missing link to that Axis of Evil - Howlin' Wolf , Captain Beefheart , Jim Dandy and even Tom Waits (To some degree.).  In the 80's ,I was wondering when someone was going to make the connection between Punk and Blues.

I did'nt know , yet , that Msr. Jeffrey Evans and The Gories , the primary founders of this stuff ( Along with Jack O' Fire , a little later.) , were just around the corner , or , to be fair , that Hound Dog Taylor was "Punk Blues" 25 years before people started talking about it.... 

[El Negro Magnifico]

I'm happy that this thread exists.