Album Notes

Sticks Downey is a three-person rap group from Portland, OR. We formed (loosely) in 2007, after repeatedly running into one another on the flea market circuit. Once we sealed the deal with a run-of-the-mill "blood in/blood out" pact, we spent the next year holding marathon roundtable discussions predicated on riffing, spitballing, tossing ideas around the room, and running a handful of things up a series of flagpoles. We eventually came to find ourselves on the same page, and we feel we've knocked it out of the park. And by "it," I of course mean the collection of songs we recorded after the white board was too jam-packed with ideas to possibly house one more "noggin nugget." (That's our buzz word for song ideas!)

Our debut album (CD) is called When the Belt Changes Hands, and I've done us all a great favor by self-releasing it on Sly Records, a small but powerful label I won a majority share in while refereeing an early morning Guadalajaran cockfight back in '02 (long story). It's crammed full of 14 tracks equaling over 50 minutes of music. If you buy the CD version (and my secret family prays that you do) you'll even get the lyrics, painstakingly translated from the original Dutch.

I can't lie: it's a kickin' setup.

Your friend,

Wockenfuss.