Slick 57 - "The Ghost of Bonnie Parker"

Slick 57
The Ghost of Bonnie Parker
Laughing Outlaw Records

Biography:
East Dallas, Texas boys: the East part is an important distinction to us Dallasites. That's where the way-cool hepcats (like me and Otis) are from.

From their website:
***TEXAS LOVE IN A MUSIC FORMAT***
Early one morning, in an un air-conditioned cabin on Lowest Greenville Ave. in E. Dallas, TX, after a long night of binge drinkin' and chain smokin' at Muddy Waters Saloon, Honky Tonk hopped in the T-sheets with Texas Punk Rock and had themselves a bastard love-child named Slick Fifty Seven. The bottom line is: Slick 57 believes in the roller derby, the hurkey turkey, hardware stores, Hank Williams and hand me downs. Slick 57 is the epitome of DIY culture and has traveled all over the danged place preachin' the miracle of moonshine and the malice of ex-girlfriends to all who will listen.

***PIRATES***
John Pedigo & Ward Richmond founded Slick 57 in May of ’98. From ‘98- May ’01 they built a loyal Dallas following playing summer and winter breaks in Texas while they finished up their degrees at Emerson College (Boston) and Brown University (Providence, RI), respectively.
Trey Pendergrass is the drummer. Trey went to Woodrow Wilson High School in E. Dallas with Ward and John and we call him Teddy P cause he’s got soul.
Past members/ guest players include members of Rev. Horton Heat, The Queers, Slowride, Darlington, The Skatenigs, Kim Lenz, Ronnie Dawson & other rock-n-roll champions.

Discography:
Drunk Life (2000)
Lo-Fi Lorraine and Her Bag of Tricks (1998)
(both are available from their website)

Review:
Since my preferred genre is Texas Music, I thought I'd kick this thing off by picking one out of the pile that my beloved wife leaves on my desk on a regular basis. She saw these cats one night while out doing her promotion thing, and fell for them. Of course, they gave her some CDs, and I ended up with one. As it turns out, this is a pre-release CD, and ISN'T AVAILABLE YET FROM THEIR WEBSITE!!! Get it together, boys.
UPDATE: It's on Amazon, of all places - boy, is my face red!

To get an initial feel for them, I threw them in the CD player on Friday night and left it in all weekend. Working the ranch and the campground means I spend a lot of time in the cab of that truck, either driving around the campground, or going to town(s) for various supplies and auto parts and beer and BBQ, ad infinitum. That gives me plenty of opportunities to hear stuff the way I like to hear it. Kinda by surprise and with no clues as to what to expect. About the only thing I really need to know about a band is that they're recommended by someone I trust. I'm slowly coming to trust the Mrs....she used to listen to boy bands like Insynch and New Kids and the Meaty Cheesy Boys. Now she's at least listening to boy bands from Texas who are a lot more rootsy, write their own music, play their own instruments. They're just as cute as the others, but in a hayseed way.

Article Author: Scott Chaffin

Visit Scott Chaffin's author page — Scott Chaffin's Blog