Member Since: 20/05/2007
Band Website: www.cdbaby.com/all/lonesomesteve
Band Members: Lonesome (Lefty) Steve,
Righty Ridenour,
Miss Lil' Bit Blackburn
Influences: Honky- tonk juke boxes pre-Bocephus, the Roy Clark big note song book, anyone with words akin to Boxcar, Lefty or Whisperin’ in front of their name, the cast of Hee-Haw, Country Dick Montana or Patsy Montana, the same five character actors who appear in every John Wayne movie, Bobby Fleet & his band with the beat, Porter Wagoner's suit, Farmer Jason, Three Chords No Waiting, and of course Grandma.
Sounds Like: Lonesome Steve is the music you hear when at long last there's no more whining, no more indecision and nothing left to do but to crawl into one last long warm bath with a serrated steak knife and a mix tape of Wayne Hancock and John Coltrane. Because it's all over. Because you're an 8-dollar haircut in a 10-dollar shop and she was a custom-made woman in an off-the-rack world.Because you're in Kentucky every damn day, you go to bed with whiskey and tears, you wake up with hope and it's still Kentucky, no place of myth and high tenor, but a forgotten land of two-lane roads and stern faces peering from split-levels in sinkholes, long after the High Lonesome sound hit the acid rain and ran back down into a Velvet Underground where grass is never really blue and mosquitoes collect in the wet fetid spots beneath window air units. And it's over. It's over like John Lennon's dream. Like bituminous coal.Lonesome Steve's not for newbies nor poseurs. This is ugly, to-the-bone shit. If you think Johnny Dowd's a hoot and Lambchop's too polite, then Lonesome Steve is for you. Think if Nick Cave and Dale Evans had a devil child. Lonesome Steve. Dress sexy for his funeral. Because not only does he make a damn fine cup of coffee, he can mail it too.-Tommy Womack
1/12/03
Record Label: Shave & A Haircut Records
Type of Label: Indie