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There’s a long tradition of white rockers who claim to be “influenced” by the rural, black bluesmen of the pre-World War II era. In shorter supply are rockers who pay homage to the period’s white bluesmen. Creech Holler looks to change that. The trio — Jeff Zentner (vocals, clawhammer banjo, bottleneck guitar), Christian Brooks (drums, tambourine, foot stomps, vocals) and Kingsport native Joseph Campbell (bass, melodica, vocals) — sees white hillbilly musicians such as S... MORE
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“Creech Holler is the sound of sin and redemption of another time when such matters were taken as gospel and music was the stories that frightened children and set them on the path to righteousness. Like a ghost hillbilly band you hear playing from the bottom of that long dry water well, you know the one, it’s where that little Jackson girl drowned back in the 40’s. Creech Holler is both joyous and spooky in their particular brand of lonely gothic Americana. Twang says che... MORE
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From Creech Holler's debut record With Signs Following, we give you "Pretty Polly"
This an arrangement of a traditional Appalachain murder ballad. Creech Holler's interpetation draws its influence from Dock Boggs.
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Creech Holler plays the music of midnight whiskey stills and front porches. of those whose sole act of contrition before god was to make song of their sin and sorrow. of those who have been to dark places, and who left their soul there. of those who deemed it necessary to kill some poor son of a bitch who had it coming to them, and then deemed it necessary to sing a song about it. of those who loved the sacred and the profane in equal measure; who played the devil's music ... MORE
