NEW NEWS

Hubba, Hubba !
The Beat Farmers have a new album! Check out "Fulmination" on amazon.com. Holy Hollywood Hills Beatman!

• Farmhands Tell Stories
• A Happy Girl
• A piece on the Country Dick Memorial
• Kenneth Drew
• A No-Go from Jerry
• L.A. Writer
• Column from Denver Post

Hubba, Hubba !
The Country Dick solo album "The Devil Lied To Me" will be released by Bar None Records in late July. Here are some goodies from the press release.

Country Dick's artwork is on exhibit at the Intersection Gallery in San Diego (off Park Blvd.) from 8/16 to 8/29

Awright ! Jerry Raney's new band name is "Power Thud". They are playing San Diego at Winstons West 8/16 (Fri.)

Raney Blue played some of the following California shows:

• Friday, May 3 at the Belly Up, San Diego
• Friday, May 17 at Winstons East, Lakeside (San Diego)
• Saturday, May 25 at the Coach House, S.J. Capistrano
• Sunday, June 9 at Brick By Brick (opening for Dash Rip Rock) San Diego
• Friday, June 22 at Winstons East, Lakeside (San Diego)
• Saturday, June 29 at the OB Street Fair (San Diego?)

God is here tonight !
Well, at least on Friday, May 10th Joey Harris will be playing with Mojo Nixon and Nick Reynolds of the Kingston Trio at the Baja Brewing Co. (ph. 619-231-9279) in downtown San Diego at 9pm. Check out the new "Mojoworld" Page!

Hey ! Camille sent me some digitized photos of the Beat Farmers that she took. Thanks, Camille !

Whoa ! There's now an official Beat Farmer's WWW page !

They even have a couple of Beat Farmer's Almanacs :

• 1983-1990
• 1994-1995

Check out the Beat Farmer FAQ or the alternate (older) Beat Farmer FAQ !

Read a sterling Review of the latest album, Manifold.

The Beat Farmers are, without question, today's most durable legends of marginally popular music.

"Never heard of 'em!", Ya' say? Well, that ain't the Beat Farmers fault, for in the course of their eleven year existence they have:

• Released 6 gem packed albums on Rhino and Curb labels, powered by the world renowned spottiness of MCA distribution.
• Toured Europe 5 times
• Seen every square inch of the USA and Canada fifteen hundred thousand times.
• Appeared on "Entertainment Tonight" and made David Letterman an honorary rodie
• Fathered at least 3 children
• Had tens of dozens of rave reviews heaped upon them, like these:
  • Billboard:"The Beat Farmers may be the best rock-country-blues band to come down the pike since Credence Clearwater Revival"
  • Houston Chronicle: "A great show, possibly the hottest flat-out rock 'n roll I've ever been privileged to witness"
  • Village Voice: "What elevates the Beat Farmers above the competition is not only their masterly mix of influences, but the way in which these sources serve as launching pads for their rocket-blast excursion, that make you want to dance, cry, and laugh."
  • Cashbox: "The Beat Farmers are first rate, pure entertainment."
  • Vancouver Sun: "Amazing, magical, unbelievable- no superlative is too great for the wild, wild show the Beat Farmers put on last night. They twanged, they rocked, they soared, and in the end, they had a jam packed house screaming for 'more, more, more!"
  • BAM Magazine: "The Beat Farmers are bizarre, crude, and defy any rational description, yet above all, they're one hell of a band."
  • Melody Maker: "The Beat Farmers present a great, sweeping panorama of styles and accents, riffs and rifts, all welded together with a unique and considerable force. They can sound like every great band you've ever loved, but no one has ever sounded like the Beat Farmers. They are a legend in the making and the making of a legend"

Beat Farmer Factoids

• The Farmers have led their zealous "secret society" legions in setting more house bar records than any act in history (most likely- hard to document this stuff!)
• They've been arrested, burglarized, stiffed, beat-up, shot at, carved-up, censored, married, divorced, and forced to share dressing rooms with "The Village People", "Chippendales", "Larry 'Bud' Melman" and that idiot lead singer for Duran Duran.
• They've sur-thrived four years with no new "product"
• Recorded their long-awaited latest, Viking Lullabys, in Vancouver, unmolested and free from any industry input what-so-ever.

Viking Lullabys

All hail the King of loser-friendly flop-house rock!
The popes of stool pigeon bop!
Hail those gorgeous tits for tots-

Available July 26 at fine record stores. Viking Lullabys is on Sector 2 Records, Houston, Texas

Hey, they've released another album called "Manifold". Check out the Press Release.