Member Since: 1/16/2005
Band Website: myspace.com/Liles
Band Members: Jeffrey Liles (vocals, DJ) David Monsey (bass) Mike Jerome (drums) Zac Baird (keyboards) Kenny Withrow (guitar) Reed Easterwood (guitar, lap steel, keyboards) David Castell (production) New Cottonmouth, Texas material will feature guitarist/producer Scrote, Paul Barker and Rey Washam, composer Darius Holbert (Darius, Tx.), Rhythm Ruckus (from Vermont), Dallas production crews Decadent Dub Team and Hydroponic Sound System, keyboardist/composers Dave Palmer and Paul Slavens, Cricket Taylor, drummer Earl Harvin, bassist Brad Houser and drummer John Speice, musician/composer James Hall and LA band The Spores.
Influences:Bill Hicks, Martin Amis, George Carlin, Sarah Silverman, Hunter S. Thompson, Allen Ginsberg, Rick Linklatter, Steven Wright, Last Poets, Mos Def, Steven "Jesse" Bernstein, Mark Leyner, Lester Bangs, Roxy Gordon, David Sedaris, Eddie Izzard, Nicole Blackman, David Lynch, William Burroughs, Noam Chomsky
Sounds Like: Based in the fictional town of Cottonmouth, Texas this short film is actually collection of four individual snapshots into the life of "Chate", an uninspired American thirty-something who seems stuck in an admittedly mindless quagmire of television, pot and prejudiced passivity. Written and performed by Dallas spoken word artist Jeffrey Liles, this work is a meditative study in southern slack. Portland filmmaker Chel White directs with a keen nuance of geography, an almost surreal sense of junk imagery- quite an achievement given the format. All four of the short stories were taken from the cottonmouth, texas albums "anti-social butterfly", "white trash receptacle", and "The Right to Remain Silent"... width="425" height="350" ..
Record Label: Virgin Records, heiress-aesthetic, RadioContraband
Type of Label: Indie