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Skin Your Smokewagon

Release date: June, 2018.

1. 20 Paces Turn and Fire
2. My Daddy's Dueling Pistols
3. Big Man with a Hip Cannon
4. Miss Me
5. I'm Your Huckleberry
6. Stand There and Bleed
7. You Can't Court Your Sweetheart in Heaven
8. El Blanco
9. On My Way Down
10. I'm Here Huckleberry
11. I Want Your Blood I Want Your Soul (and I Want Them Now)
12. Go to Hell the Way I Want
13. Whiskey on the Bar and You Underground
14. I'm Your Huckle Bearer

Skin Your Smokewagon started out as a song writing exercise. Songs came from scraps of Western movie dialogue. From song titles that made us laugh. From small bits of ukulele strumming or guitar finger picking.

Gradually a narrative thread arose. Stories about the view from opposite sides of the tracks; moments of joy and laughter; tragic accidents; revenge; loss; good guys and bad guys; love; and the hopelessness that comes when you get what's coming for you.

We pulled every thread we could grab out of the quilt of Americana music and old West story telling. When we wove them back together again we found ourselves with a garment that fit just fine.

John Brunn - Guitar, Lap Steel
Collin Conoley - Vocals, Guitar, Ukulele, Mandolin
Brian Hamilton - Guitar
Kevin Kalahikii - Bass, Ukulele
Kitt Thompson - Vocals, Drums

Recorded and mixed by Giovanni Moro

Fault Lines and Good Times

Release date: August, 2009. Read the Write Up

1. Banjolero
2. Not That Type of Girl
3. Christicles
4. Bourbon and Bile
5. Fault Lines and Good Times
6. Crop Circle Waltz
7. Bones of Glory
8. Vacation
9. I Shot my Wife (Again)
10. War Woot

"It’s these original twists on familiar themes that bring the listener back to the CD for repeated plays. Many of the songs do not click on first listen but as we decipher them song by song, the porkchopian gestalt begins to permeate our consciousness like the afterglow of a hayloft tryst."
--Hicks With Sticks

"Solid new album from local alt-country veterans. A common thread of ironic reflection on the peril of adult life runs through songs like Bourbon and Bile and I Shot My Wife (Again). With a sound that’s a little bluesy, a lot twangy, and a whole ton of country and some damn funny lyrics, it’s a witty little slice of Americana."
--East Bay Express

All You Can Handle EP

Released 2006. Six original songs recorded with Giovanni Moro in his basement studio of DOOM. Put it in the stereo, turn off the lights and close the blinds. Wait! What's that hand touching you? It's us.

1. Cougar
2. Born
3. Hombre
4. Ballad of Kelly Smalls
5. Daddy's Little Boy
6. Virtue

The Clock Radio Sessions

Released 2004. Our glorious first album. 13 songs recorded in two and half days in a cozy Potrero Hill warehouse. The great Slingshot o'Fame is now pulled taut, holding us firmly in its cusp and ready to shoot us into the stars.

1. She Gave me the Finger (But I got the upper hand)
2. Mama Taught me to Drink
3. Birthday Song
4. Charlie Bravo
5. Hard to Fight off Heartache (When all your friends are in AA)
6. California Love
7. It Ain't Fair
8. Hippy Girlfriend
9. Call Me John
10. Better Than Being Alone
11. Breaking Up is Hard in this Competitive Housing Market
12. Reno
13. Jessica

Yule Logs and Sexy Hogs

Released 2005. A little bit of Holiday goodness we threw together and gave as a gift to our fans at one of our Christmas shows.

1. The Bar is Closed on Christmas
2. Holiday Song