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Those Poor Bastards
Hellfire Hymns
Genre: Country

Track Listings (16) - Disc #1
1. The Dust Storm
2. Where She Been?
3. John Henry Gonna
4. God Damned Me
5. Behold Black Sheep
6. Have I Been Faithful?
7. The Hellbound Train
8. There's Gotta Be Something Better
9. Ruin My Life
10. Blood on my Hands
11. Family Graveyard
12. Stay Away from the Forest Boy
13. In the Backwoods
14. Farewell Happy Fields
15. Lost on the Way
16. Everything is Gone

CD Details

All Artists: Those Poor Bastards
Title: Hellfire Hymns
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Tribulation Recording Company
Original Release Date: 2/27/2007
Re-Release Date: 2/13/2007
Genre: Country
Style: Americana
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 837101297783

Synopsis

Product Description

Hellfire Hymns is a masterpiece of infernal atmosphere. The production creaks like a gallows pole, and the songs don't seem ancient as much as they seem otherworldly, crafted by damned souls on Hell's plain. These songs speak of bloody redemption, of what befalls those who stray from the straight and narrow. As sanctified as the songs seem, you get the idea that Lonesome Wyatt and The Minister don't speak from a high horse, but from personal experience of the tribulations of the damned. Let the death country revolution descend. - Owl and Bear

CD Reviews

Why did I buy it?

Boozy Breath | UK | 05/22/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"For the poetic images it inspires and for the fact that they list Black Flag, and Blind Willie Johnson as influences on their 'myspace' page. To put those two in the same sentence is an act of genius by itself, but to have them as influences is certifiably inspirational: you have to be either mad or very perceptive, probably both.

Hellfire Hymns is full of little nuggets of poetry, you have to listen carefully or read the lyrics while listening to feel your own emotional being resonate. Lines like: `Everyone turns so cold hearted, when they get holy' and `I've gotta ruin my life on my own' are not much by themselves: it is the way Those Poor [..]sing them that says it all.

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