Debut two-song single from The Recoils. The Recoils are a bi-coastal underground rock n’ roll supergroup featuring members of The Lonesome Kings, Preacher Boy, and Slow Gherkin.
Debut Release from The Recoils!
Brand-New Release from Preacher Boy!
Six for Three
Preacher Boy
Possibly the rawest and most immediate album of Preacher Boy's long career. An escape to a river in the mountains. 6 new songs written in 3 days, rich with the sights and sounds of the wild—rushing rapids, lone ghost pines, abandoned gold mines, gliding eagles, bleached white bones. Back in the city, the songs are tracked in a single day; all
Possibly the rawest and most immediate album of Preacher Boy's long career. An escape to a river in the mountains. 6 new songs written in 3 days, rich with the sights and sounds of the wild—rushing rapids, lone ghost pines, abandoned gold mines, gliding eagles, bleached white bones. Back in the city, the songs are tracked in a single day; all live, no overdubs. 4 mics. Funky little ribbon mic on the vocal. Another mic on a turn-of-the-century Washburn parlor guitar fitted with a 1960 DeArmond pickup. Third mic on a National amp putting out the pickup signal. Fourth mic, something for the stomping. "Six for Three" is country blues in the most literal of ways—raw, real, wild.
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Miss Butterfly Blues 3:000:00/3:00
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Trinity River Blues 4:140:00/4:14
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The River Wild 2:520:00/2:52
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Gold Mining Blues 2:500:00/2:50
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So the Story Goes 3:220:00/3:22
New Single from The Nob Hill Mariners!
In Dreams I Move As Never When Awake
The Nob Hill Mariners
California’s finest purveyors of hyper-literate garage rock return with their first new music since 2019’s debut release, “Black Rain.” Poet Robert Lavett Smith’s lyrics are as bittersweetly poignant as ever, and while Preacher Boy’s guitar sounds may be edgier than on the debut, they’re counterbalanced by the singular sound of a Vox Continental
California’s finest purveyors of hyper-literate garage rock return with their first new music since 2019’s debut release, “Black Rain.” Poet Robert Lavett Smith’s lyrics are as bittersweetly poignant as ever, and while Preacher Boy’s guitar sounds may be edgier than on the debut, they’re counterbalanced by the singular sound of a Vox Continental organ, keeping things firmly in classic garage rock territory. Most distinctive is the evolution of the band’s groove, made possible by the introduction of 13-year-old drum phenom Clara Bay Marinelli Watkins, who delivers 2 minutes and 34 seconds of percolating percussion to underpin the poetic proto-punk proceedings.
New Single from The Westside Sheiks!
She's in the Fog
The Westside Sheiks
The Westside Sheiks are: Jon Dryden: acoustic piano Christopher "Preacher Boy" Watkins: guitar and voice
also featuring: Holly Martins: drums Anna Schmidt: bass Harry Lime: harmonica
art direction: Amy Marinelli cover photo: Amy Marinelli
Award Winners!
See No Evil
Preacher Boy
Features "The Damned (So Many More of Us Than Them)"
SONG OF THE YEAR 2020 Manifesto Awards
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Uncle Sam's Blues 3:220:00/3:22
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Proverbs 3:120:00/3:12
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Eleven Rounds
The Westside Sheiks
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BEST ROOTS/BLUES ALBUM 2020 Manifesto Awards
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In a Boxer's Town 2:520:00/2:52
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High Hopes 2:580:00/2:58
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Broke and Low 2:190:00/2:19
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I Miss You 3:260:00/3:26
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Fair Weather Friends 3:300:00/3:30
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The Westside Sheiks 4:160:00/4:16
Latest Releases
Acoustic Blues Summit
Coast Road Records
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Acoustic Blues Summit represents the coming together of three musical artists who are each in their own unique ways committed to both preserving and advancing the acoustic blues tradition. Little Jonny Lawton, Pete Madsen, and Preacher Boy bring decades of experience to the musical table, with dozens of albums released, and thousands of tour miles
Acoustic Blues Summit represents the coming together of three musical artists who are each in their own unique ways committed to both preserving and advancing the acoustic blues tradition. Little Jonny Lawton, Pete Madsen, and Preacher Boy bring decades of experience to the musical table, with dozens of albums released, and thousands of tour miles behind them
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In The River
RaIL
Veteran Alt Blues/Americana troubadours Will Scott & Preacher Boy join together for a slide guitar-driven cover of The Call's epic 80s track "In The River."
See No Evil
Preacher Boy
Features "The Damned (So Many More of Us Than Them)"
SONG OF THE YEAR 2020 Manifesto Awards
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Uncle Sam's Blues 3:220:00/3:22
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Proverbs 3:120:00/3:12
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Drive In
Park & Preach
Two award-winning singer-songwriters deliver an EP of melancholic Americana written and recorded during a series of Brooklyn-to-Nashville-and-back road trips.
Bryan “Park” Miller and Christopher “Preacher Boy” Watkins first started writing songs together in the early 2000s, and began making regular trips between Brooklyn and Nashville shortly
Two award-winning singer-songwriters deliver an EP of melancholic Americana written and recorded during a series of Brooklyn-to-Nashville-and-back road trips.
Bryan “Park” Miller and Christopher “Preacher Boy” Watkins first started writing songs together in the early 2000s, and began making regular trips between Brooklyn and Nashville shortly thereafter.
Together and separately they’ve achieved significant success. Park is a two-time Nashville Songwriter’s Association honoree. Preach has earned a Gold Record for his work with Rick Rubin and Eagle-Eye Cherry.
In between outside projects, they made some time to record something for themselves. Nicknamed “Sally”—and now officially titled "Drive In"—you might say this EP has been more than a decade in the making.
Following in the footsteps of The Band, Bob Dylan, and Townes Van Zandt, the album’s sound is kindred spirit to artists such as Alejandro Escovedo, Steve Earle, and Lucinda Williams, while comparisons to contemporaries like Old Crow Medicine Show or Gillian Welch wouldn’t be far off the mark.
Park’s pure tenor sits at the center of the alternatively buoyant and melancholy sound, while Preach’s unmistakable slide work on National Resophonic leads a multi-instrumental chorus that includes Telecaster, mandolin, harmonica, piano, and more.
Ultimately, the “Drive In” EP is an expression of the magic that can happen when two veteran singer-songwriters who’ve logged a lot of miles together take the time to record a handful of their own poignant and powerful songs. For those who like their Americana spiked with a bit of pathos and poetry, take a trip to the Drive In.
Drive In, the new EP from Park & Preach, is available for download now from Coast Road Records.
“Everyone is honest about fearing clowns and the sky, and the soil, are the same shade of brown and all the new brides share the same off-white gown and baby, there ain't no right side of this town” —from “No Right Side of this Town”
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Original album artwork by Bartolomeo Argentino
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Vineland
Patches
Trippy, funky, atmospheric instrumental electronica layered with live electric guitars.
Patches is the brainchild of a former Italian soccer player turned producer-composer, who spends half the year in a villa outside Florence, and the other half in California wine country. The album is a collaboration between Patches and Alt-Blues artist Preacher
Trippy, funky, atmospheric instrumental electronica layered with live electric guitars.
Patches is the brainchild of a former Italian soccer player turned producer-composer, who spends half the year in a villa outside Florence, and the other half in California wine country. The album is a collaboration between Patches and Alt-Blues artist Preacher Boy, who provides live electric guitars to the album's 12 tracks. Patches counts as foundational influences albums such as The Beastie Boy's Ill Communication, Massive Attack's Mezzanine, Moby's Everything is Wrong, Daft Punk's Homework, Tricky's Maxinquaye, UNKLE's Psyence Fiction, and Portishead's Dummy.
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Versus 2:580:00/2:58
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Chill D. Hill 4:130:00/4:13
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Estate Box Opening 3:300:00/3:30
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Parks on Parks Off 3:440:00/3:44
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My Song Five Is 3:290:00/3:29
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Patches 2:300:00/2:30
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Benchlandias 3:490:00/3:49
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Nineteen Ninety-One 3:360:00/3:36
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Preaching Reaching 2:530:00/2:53