MUD IS HEAVEN, THIS WE KNOW
You can't put your arms around a memory, and in the case of BLIND WILLIE'S JOHNSON, you wouldn't want to. No blood relation to the holy-blues singer and sanctified guitarist whose good name they defiled, Blind Willie’s Johnson was a mongrel pack of blues-wailing traffickers in hypnotic / narcotic / electric mud from the underbelly of Austin’s music scene in the 1990s. With amps set to stun, their dense shield wall of over-modulated mouth harp, sidewinding slide guitar, mud-crawling riffs and quicksand grooves made no concessions to trends, traditions, or tastes. This site pays homage to a band whose remorseless din was as ahead of its time as it was behind it and outside of it.
NEW ALBUM RELEASE!
Recorded in a previous century and left to ferment to imperfection for more years than you can shake a stick at, DESECRATION ROW is chock full of previously unreleased odes to mud, blood, dirt, death, drugs, moonshine, murder, manual labor, mental illness, carcinogenic fumes, hallucinogenic properties, scraggly women and lascivious rattlesnakes by a band at the unmarked crossroads of trance-inducing blues and swamp-root rock.
BLIND WILLIE'S JOHNSON was (and remains) MICK BUCK (vocals, guitar), DENNIS KU (slide guitar, vocals), TOM PATTON (harmonica), SETH TIVEN (bass, guitar, vocals), and JASON VARGO (drums). Exhumed in 2025 and let loose on a world gone wrong, DESECRATION ROW is the inaugural release from SO ALONE RECORDS, a Nashville-based independent label sworn to the preservation and dissemination of previously unreleased or unjustly neglected recordings of filth-encrusted blues, dirty-ass rock & roll, and other unclean sounds. The album is streaming at all the usual platforms. The limited-edition CD can be yours at Desecration Row | Blind Willie's Johnson
OUT NOW: A BAD MOJO WARNING
A psycho-swamp-noir tour de force, BODCAW was written and first performed by the legendary BIG RED & GREEN ONES from refinery town El Dorado, Arkansas. Those ne'er-do-wells BLIND WILLIE' S JOHNSON recorded this screaming mud dog rendition in 1993. It was last heard on the soundtrack of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation," the big screen debut of Matthew McConaughey and Renee Zellweger.
Download the single at Bodcaw | Blind Willie's Johnson or stream it 'til you scream it at yo' favorite platform.
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