Hell's Belles

Vintage sounds, dusty grooves, and 21st-century freaks.

As if the Hornicator weren’t reason enough, Thomas Truax once again makes me go “awwww!”.  Follow him on soundcloud poste haste, for he has decided to do a Monthly Journal of music for the next 12 months:

The Monthly Journal will be a living, mutating organism taking place in twelve intervals over 2011. Tracks will be informed by any number of things: the vibe, feeling, texture, atmosphere of the changing seasons, the expanding and contracting lengths of days and nights, weather, news, dreams, personal or world events as they unfold. I’ll respond to these with a piece that will be created, produced and released within the window of each month.

Here’s the first three:
January Egg Race Dream by Thomas Truax
February What Ya Doin To Me by Thomas Truax
March Winds by Thomas Truax

Reasons to love Thomas Truax:

• He plays an instrument of his own making called The Hornicator.
• He’s been described as “Like Tom Waits, presenting kids TV.”
• He wrote a song about Joe Meek’s attempt to warn Buddy Holly of his impending death called “Joe Meek Warns Buddy Holly”. Naturally.
• He used to be an animator on Celebrity Deathmatch.
• He is FREAKIN’ AWESOME.

Listen to / download a track from his new album, Sonic Dreamer. Then buy said album because, like I said, it’s FREAKIN’ AWESOME.

Thomas Truax – Beehive Heart by charmfactory

You can’t beat a good song about chicken, especially one by a West Virginian one-man-band.  With influences like Hank Williams Sr, Jimmie Rodgers, Little Richard, and  Colonel Sanders and a vast catalogue of songs about love, heartbreak, police, death, decapitation, hot dogs, aliens and tasty, tasty chicken… well… sheeee-it, if you haven’t got down with The Haze yet, you done might as well be deaf.

NYC-based Norton Records has been keeping the fryer sizzlin’ since poor Hasil tragically kicked the KFC bucket in 2005.  This glorious nugget  can be found on the Out To Hunch collection.

Hasil Adkins – Chicken Walk by hells-belles

MP3: Hasil Adkins – Chicken Walk