For a few years after his passing in 2003, the market was flooded with everything Johnny Cash. In hindsight, it is even somewhat surprising how little Rick Rubin and his American Recordings utilized this situation. They could have put out … Continue reading From the Vaults #19: American VI: Ain’t No Grave
This Hank Williams box set is absolutely one of the most extravagant items in our music collection. It’s a rather massive set containing 15 CD’s, one DVD, a hardcover book, a poster and a puzzle. Everything except the puzzle is … Continue reading From the Vaults #18: The Complete Mother’s Best Recordings Plus!
The concept album is a notoriously risky thing. The prospect of telling a story over the arch of an entire album, tying together all tracks into a conceptual, thematic and/or narrative whole has proven to be a surprisingly tricky thing … Continue reading From the Vaults #16: Tougher Than Leather
As most of you probably realize by now, 2024 is over and we’ve entered 2025. For those of you who haven’t, consider this a public service announcement. Anyhow, let’s take a look at some of the noteworthy releases of last … Continue reading A year in summation: 2024
Year: 2024Label: Tribulation Recording Company Another year, another Lonesome Wyatt album. Although this is already the second album this year, preceded by the man’s other project Those Poor Bastards’ rather lacklustre Back To The Primitive (reviewed here). As we’ve remarked … Continue reading LONESOME WYATT AND THE HOLY SPOOKS: Afraid
David Allan Coe is without doubt one of the most controversial characters within country music. There’s no shortage of reasons for this. Some of them humorous, such as the legendary story of him riding to Nashville in a hearse; some … Continue reading From the Vaults #11: Longhaired Redneck/Rides Again
THOSE POOR BASTARDS: Back To The Primitive Release year: 2024Label: Tribulation Recording Company As I stated in my review of US gothic country act Those Poor Bastard’s previous album God Awful (here), it’s been a while since the group have … Continue reading Back to the trite
LONESOME WYATT AND THE HOLY SPOOKS: Longing For Oblivion Release year: 2023Label: Tribulation Recording Company As I mentioned in my review of Those Poor Bastard’s God Awful (here), it’s been a long while since Lonesome Wyatt has done anything that’s … Continue reading Lonesome for oblivion
THE COFFINSHAKERS: Graves, Release Your Dead Release year: 2023Label: Svart Records It’s been a long, long wait. Swedish horror country legends The Coffinshakers released their previous album all the way back in 2007. Since then, apart from the occasional gig, … Continue reading The dead, released once more
It’s been a while since we did one of these. In fact, looks like in all of Only Death Is Real’s history, we’ve only done one year round-up. High time for a second one, don’t you think? So, here are … Continue reading A year in summation: 2022
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