Sundown songs started when Kate, Pat, and Jesse were hanging around the lower 9th ward together down in New Orleans. They'd trade tunes around a fire most nights till by and by they worked out some parts and started playing shows about the city. Before they all took off rambling separate ways they left behind an album of nineteen original songs and a recipe for bacon pie called "Like a Jazz Band in Nashville" The name came from the joke that a country band in the jazz city was like a jazz band in nashville -- completely out of place. It was recorded in Ratty Scurvic's shotgun shack studio in the upper 9th and distributed in paper bags one time at a barbeque... well, by word of mouth that record began to spread... it had a real impact on the city because there aren't many country-style bands writing there own tunes. their sound is familiar and haunting and their songs get you in the guts... songs born out of what they see, hear, feel, and the characters they meet traveling - often broke and hungry, and just wishing they had a little piece of land t call home. So... in the meantime they just laugh and hop trains and smell bad and sleep on your couch. But now they finally have something to offer in exchange - this beautiful album of long lived, fire and brimstone sundown songs.
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