Posts Tagged ‘small stone records’

Album of the day: Dixie Witch – Let It Roll

Posted on Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

Lovingly pinched from The Sleeping Shaman: Twelve years and four albums into their career and five years since the last album, Smoke And Mirrors it’s very much business as usual for Dixie Witch. Even the departure of founding guitarist Clayton Mills in 2009 and subsequent replacement by JT Smith has done nothing to diminish or detract from the band’s hooch fuelled southern rocking shenanigans.

Let’s face it, we don’t look to the Witch dudes for high concept pieces, multi layered, orchestrated musical experiments or complex wordplay. No, we look to the Witch to kick our asses with some of the most bitching, hard rock and roll on the planet, and on Let It Roll they deliver …in spades!!!

From the opening title track, through ‘Boogie Man’ to the closing strains of ‘December’, Dixie Witch channel the departed spirits of Ronnie Van Zandt and Greg Allman through a cranked up Marshall, a barrel of Jack Daniels and more drugs than a touring funk band. This is heavy, southern rock and roll for the stoned generation, the sort of thing that, through bands such as Sun Gods In Exile, The Brought Low, Halfway To Gone and Roadsaw, Small Stone have excelled in delivering to a pent up, anally retentive world to loosen spines and befuddle minds.

Continue reading: Dixie Witch ‘Let It Roll’ CD/DD 2011 review | The Sleeping Shaman.

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Album of the day: Freedom Hawk – Holding On

Posted on Saturday, September 17th, 2011

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: Virginian four-piece Freedom Hawk began to carve their name on the American riffy consciousness with 2009’s self-titled full-length, released by MeteorCity. That album earned generally favorable comparisons to Fu Manchu (from me as well), and on the follow-up, Holding On, the double-guitar unit maintain that ...read more

Album of the day: Backwoods Payback – Momantha

Posted on Saturday, July 16th, 2011

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: It was kind of a surprise when Small Stone signed West Chester, Pennsylvania, riff mongers Backwoods Payback. Not that the band is undeserving. In the live arena, they stand up to anyone you want to put them against (including, regularly, formidable labelmates Lo-Pan), but their ...read more

Album of the day: Tia Carrera – Cosmic Priestess

Posted on Saturday, February 19th, 2011

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: ‘Slave Cylinder’ opens with a nod to Sabbath’s ‘N.I.B.’,  and from there, Cosmic Priestess — the second album from Tia Carrera on Small Stone Records — only gets trippier. The Austin, Texas, trio made their label debut in 2009 with The Quintessential, and while that ...read more

Album of the day: Lo-Pan – Salvador

Posted on Wednesday, February 16th, 2011

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: For nearly seven years, my measuring stick for Small Stone debuts has been the first, self-titled Sasquatch album, and each new band that’s come along on the label (there have been plenty) since then, I’ve said, “Well, okay, but is it as good as the ...read more