Slag

In the winter of 2011, Jacob Bailey came over to my house to record some gritty ass blues song. We wound up jamming and I stowed away the tape, like I normally do. I've probably recorded more with Jacob than anyone...free form jams, his bands like The No-Nothins and Tehnus Racquet, our doomed punk band The New American Camels, or just his own songs. Like normal, something gets in the way, the band dissolves, or we get busy, he with tremendous amounts of work and I with tremendous amounts of black metal stuff. Anyhow, I dug up the tape and it sounded to me a lot better than it initially did. I proceeded to call him up and invite him to record some more in tracks in the same vein.

What we have here is eleven songs torn from hours of cassettes. All the songs were entirely improvised, with Jacob and I switching instruments and vocals. I don't have his confidence in making up lyrics on the spot, so mine were dubbed, along with the bass on Smelt and a tom on Lines of Symmetry. Everything else is live and void of effects. Most of the tracks are grossly out of time, stupidly loud, and Southern as all fuck, which is basically what we were going for. We call it freeblues (or maybe acidgrass) as a cover up for our inherent lack of rhythm and general apathy regarding tonality or listener comfort. We're bastards and we ruin music, including the standard, Summertime. So here's a bunch of songs about women, the devil, and being Southern.

Slag MP3s

And below is the WAV files with all the songs arranged how it was supposed to be heard, if you're interested. It sounds better but it's just two big files.

Side 1
Side 2

Jacob Bailey- Vocals, harmonica, plucked and slided guitar, trumpet, trombone, spoons, and drums on track 3.
Nicholas Riley- Vocals, drums, bass, strummed guitar, alto saxophone, banjo, tambourine, and harmonica on track 3.
All songs written and recorded by Slag in the winter and spring of 2011 in Clarksville, TN except Summertime, which was written by George Gershwin.