HiLLSTOMP thrown down the hunch n' buck at THE DEEP BLUES FESTiVAL August 18th in River Falls Wisconsin!

HiLLSTOMP: POOR BLACK MATTiE

In honour of Hillstomp's appearence at the forthcoming Deep Blues Festival here's a rerun of my review of the last Hillstomp album. Their new album will be in stores any second now. Get it! But first...an ode:

HiLLSTOMP beats hell
in those west Oregon valley blues
crisp and grimey
(sayhey!)snappykhakis
deep pocketed full up
those old hill(side)country
so(i)ul and new
rainsoaked side alley pot holes
John/Henry's two man team
Half Fred with Faulkner's adze
handle R.L.ian resorazor
clatter HWY 7 riverside. stop.
Rollin' long enough
to haul up blowers, banjers, yellers & dawgs
tracking Columbia mud 'cross
my gawdblamed kitchen floor loudly
Welcomed 'til all hours day and night.
I believe.

HiLLSTOMP: GRAVEROBBER'S BLUES


Hillstomp- The Woman That Ended The World -2005
With the release of “The Woman that Ended the World” Portland Oregon’s Hillstomp deliver on the promise of the first North Mississippi Allstars 45 as well as those of RL Burnside vs Jon Spencer’s “Ass Pocket of Whiskey “ and moreover Hillstomp’s own debut which is still an exciting entrée to this fine duo. Artist’s like Hillstomp, Black Diamond Heavies, Mark Lemhouse, Gravel Road, Sugar Farm and others are kicking the blues alive for rediscovery by making it exciting and moving again in the same way Cream, the Stones, and Yardbirds did. They are selling us back our North Mississippi Country blues via a trip to the hills of Oregon and the streets of Portland. Fans of the aforementioned artists will be thrilled by this new collectionwhich includes originals alongside a Fred McDowell thingand some good Ranie Burnette from whom so many good things grew (look him up). Hillstomp plays North Mississippi flavoured American music and they play it snapped up and tightly wound. They play it on odd old guitars and tubs and skins and cans in a way that keeps your ears bent, head bobbin’ and feet slidin’. This might not be your old man’s blues. But it might should be.

HiLLSTOMP: JOHN HENRY


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From HiLLSTOMP's first album One Word

Graverobber's Blues MP3
Lucy's Lament MP3
Flood Blues MP3

From HiLLSTOMP's $2.49 Bar Menu release
(only available at shows and sooper rare!)
Big Leg Woman MP3

From HiLLSTOMP's second album The Woman That Ended The World
Poor Black Mattie (a Ranie Burnette cover) MP3
Boom Boom Room East Blues MP3