Slow Southern Steel...coming slowly
http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/3CHY0xOvPbE&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0 Above is a trailer for Slow Southern Steel, a documentary about Southern sludge metal. Rwake vocalist CT and David Lipke are directing it. Shooting is still occurring, so perhaps the trailer is premature. (Scheduled are a May ’10 festival debut and ’11 DVD release.) But it has me excited for the film, even though...
Mad Mama's Blues
Josie Miles Metal has no monopoly on lyrical mass murder. The blues is full of cuttin’ and shootin’ and .44’s. (See this thread on the Most Violent Blues Songs Ever.) In the ’20s, two female blues singers, Josie Miles and Julia Moody, each recorded “Mad Mama’s Blues,” written by Spencer Williams under the pseudonym Duke...