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RoughCuts

..."just remember that heavens right here.."

About Me

RoughCuts is a band out of Oregon that plays original folk/ country rock tunes that usually have a very humanistic secular message. Or... most of the time we just like to drink a few beers and rock....

George Carlin -Religion is BS

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John Lennon recording, "Gimme Some Truth"

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Member Since: 2/20/2006
Band Website: roughcutscd.com
Band Members: Mark Shifflett-Acoustic Guitar and Vocals, Nick Angelo-Electric Guitars, Tim Murphy-Bass and Vocals, John Hryciuk-Drums
Influences: Willie, Waylon and the Boys.. Johnny Cash, The Beatles, Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, Son Volt, The Handsome Family, CCR, Bob Dylan, John Prine, Flatts and Scruggs, Bartles and Jaymes and a ton of great local bands in the Portland area..
Sounds Like: --Psychedelic Country... actually I guess some days we kind of sound like if Johnny Cash had ever met Voltaire, or if John Lennon had been a baritone instead of a tenor, or Kris Kirstoferson on a bad day, and Leonard Cohen on a good one.... maybe something like that... Click here to find out...
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Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Go see Bill Mahers movie "Religulous"

--"it's a crap shoot and dumb luck that really make things divine"&-- from the song "I Can't See" on the CD, the unseen sound 2006-RoughCuts " one must suffer for ones art "Leonard Shifflett 1935-...
Posted by RoughCuts on Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:06:00 PST

Rare RoughCut Recording..- Going Down.. The Wagner Complex

                           "  I am a different type of organism, my nerves ar...
Posted by RoughCuts on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:16:00 PST

..ungodly totally ripped off rant..

An ungodly totally ripped off rant:       (compiled by m.shifflett) I am an still atheist, thank God. There ain't no devil, just God when he's drunk. God is dead, a...
Posted by RoughCuts on Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:18:00 PST

...life really is stranger than fiction...

     Sam Harris wrote a great blog last week , check it out.... Palin: average isn't good enough She's not qualified to be president, and in picking her, McCain shows that he ha...
Posted by RoughCuts on Sun, 14 Sep 2008 04:49:00 PST

Shit Happens!

Close-to-complete Ideology and Religion Shit List. Taoism: Shit happens. Confucianism: Confucius say, "Shit happens." Buddhism: If shit happens, it isn't really shit. Zen Buddhism: Shit is, and is...
Posted by RoughCuts on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:32:00 PST

Shiffletts- Dry Land Pirates? or Notorious Rouges?

..TR> 1857 Newspaper ArticlePublished Saturday, 3 January 1857 in the Abingdon VirginianSubmitted by Kim Morris [email protected]..:namespace >     "THE SHIFFLETTS GONE" "We learn...
Posted by RoughCuts on Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:07:00 PST

Farewell George! God Isnt Real!

    "I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death"-- Georg...
Posted by RoughCuts on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:37:00 PST

Which Way to a Free World (Part 2)

                " What is freedom ?" a teacher asked her class. "It's when you can leave home and go where and do wh...
Posted by RoughCuts on Wed, 07 May 2008 03:14:00 PST

Flower Days

    " If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem..Love and peace are eternal- The thing the Sixties ...
Posted by RoughCuts on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:15:00 PST

A Christmas Message from Jethro....

RoughCuts, Silent Night from 2006.. (Mark-Vocals,Acoustic,Drum Machine-Nick-Electric Guitar, Hand Claps Etc..Tim- Bass-Vocals, Hand Claps, Etc...) --I don't believe you . You've got the whole damn thi...
Posted by RoughCuts on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:01:00 PST