There're several different acts currently charting as The Sundowners: 1.) The Sundowners were a country-western trio from Chicago, 1959-1989. They included guitarist Don Walls, guitarist Bob Boyd and bassist Curt Delaney. Promoting their retrospective CD, Bloodshot Revival proclaimed The Sundowners knew more than 15,000 songs, playing about 7,000 songs annually. 2.) A very early collaboration between Will Oldham and Bill Callahan.
Hailing from Detroit, Michigan, Deadstring Brothers are forging their own imprint far removed from anything remotely close to what we've been conditioned to expect from the Motor City. While their hometown counterparts follow Iggy Pop's footsteps so closely they're practically ripping the skin off his heels, Deadstring Brothers style embraces a sound from somewhere far beyond the Wayne County line.
Sally Timms (born 29 November 1959 in Leeds, England) is a singer and songwriter. Sally is best known for her long involvement with The Mekons whom she joined in 1986. She recorded her first solo album, Hangahar (an experimental improvised film score), at the age of nineteen with Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks. She has released several other solo CDs, Someone
Eric Bellis (aka Rico Bell) was born near Liverpool, UK and has been working as a professional artist since the early 1970s. Currently residing in Los Angeles, his work has been exhibited and represented by many commercial galleries throughout the UK and US including Eastwick Gallery (now known as Thomas Masters Gallery), Chicago and Yard Dog Gallery, Austin, Texas. His work has also been exhibited in the UK at the Royal Academy, London; the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Manchester City Art Gallery, Leeds City Art Gallery, Cardiff City Art Gallery and Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre.
With a "Bible in one hand, broken bottle in the other" (Spin June '09) Ha Ha Tonka return with their sophomore effort on Bloodshot Records, Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South. The album takes listeners on a complex tour of the South—through lynchings and mob violence, sacrifice and reconciliation. It’s dense subject matter for any artist, but delivered beautifully on this record by these native sons of the Ozarks from Springfield, Missouri.