Lefty McRighty

"When are you going to stop singing about genitals?"
- Lefty's mom

"Lefty and his bandmates are muscular players. Songs like Big Nipples, Rollin’ and Hepatitis Blues move through the abs and delts of a riff-heavy country-rock tune with style."
- Fateema Sayani, The Ottawa Citizen

Who: Lefty McRighty.

What: Old-time country music, sometimes with the band, sometimes solo. Topics include boobs, beer, beer spilled on boobs.

Where: check the listings.

When: see "Where"

Why: the fuck not?

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Lefty McRighty has been performing locally mostly, and on the road whenever someone’ll have him, for 4 years. His brand of music: irreverent old-time country and western. Sometimes he’s got a band, sometimes it’s a solo show, sometimes it’s somewhere in between. Lefty’s got a self-titled album under his belt, recorded in 2006 with the help of his good friends The Boxcar Cadavers, and will be releasing an e.p. in the not-too-distant future featuring new insta-classics such as There’s No Cold Beer in Hell, Blood Flows Quicker Than Gravy (about the great poutine war of ’55), and Where’s The Nearest Titty Bar.

Lefty's sometimes-backup band is made up of some of Ottawa's finest and most experienced country and punk rock veterans. On lead guitar is Lefty's father-in-law, Ray Harris (George Stryker & the Bandits, Mustang Ranch, The Willies, currently with the Sunbleached Skulls). On drums, the mighty Jeb Bond (The Restless Virgins, Screaming Bamboo, Evil Knievel, The Hooblers, Freudhammer, currently with Evil Farm Children). On bass is alt-country guru Mars Wilson (Confederate Jesus, The Buffalo Jumps, Dirty Devils, Ants in Your Pants).

About Lefty's debut album:

In 2006 Ottawa’s Lefty McRighty teamed up with friends The Boxcar Cadavers to record his independently released debut album. This recording captures the acoustically pure “let’s-tape-everything-in-the-same-room-at-the-same-time ” honesty of early 1950’s rockabilly and country music, and balances this sound with the hard-hitting punk-rock energy of a Lefty McRighty live show.

The end product is a one-of-a-kind sound experience, inspired by the original cow-punks, Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two. Lefty brings a new level of energy to Cash’s concept of “beauty in simplicity”, adding a healthy dose of punk and metal, all the while staying true to the roots of old-time country and western recordings.

Highlights on this album include Lefty's big hit single Big Nipples, a 2-part murder ballad (Walk Away being the justification, I Love You in Pieces the aftermath), a delightful romp about STDs (Hepatitis Blues), and an exploration of sexual themes in the scriptures (Bible Wood).
Since its release, Lefty’s debut album has been:

-featured as Album of the Week (Nov 2) on Country Club, Radio Columbia 106.9fm, in Roselies, Belgium
-charting regularly in the top 30 at CKCU (Ottawa ON)
-charting regularly in Folk and Roots top 10 at CJSR (Edmonton AB) and CKXU (Lethbridge AB)