Friday, October 31, 2025

Rattle Them Bones - The Pine Hill Haints

Rattle Them Bones - The Pine Hill Haints
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The Magik Sounds Of the Pine Hill Haints, 2014
Written by the Pine Hill Saints

Evoking the Squirrel Nut Zippers, Devil Makes Three, and C.W. Stoneking, the Alabama-based Haints play the old weird folk traditions, everything from rockabilly to folk-punk to Celtic folk.  This song is a shuffling Gothic folk-blues on a Caribbean beat with echoed vocals and a shambling percussion that sounds like chains clattering rhythmically on a bucket.  It's a contained chaos, a crazy Gothic jazz, like if the Ramones started in the 1920s.  It takes skill to craft such a joyful noise.

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