Midweek Mixdown: Tie One On Tonight with Blackout Benny

Check out the latest episode (#13) of Blackout Benny's classic country show Tie One On Tonight below. Swank art by Olaf Jens.

Here's the scoop...

Happy New Year! Welcome to Tie One On Tonight - country music record party #13. This episode brings songs songs about the end result of living too hard, what to do with the blues, one of the best bar brawler 45s I got, a tune about Patty Hearst and much much more. My newer artist this go around is the fantastic Croy and They Boys from Austin TX. and they have a public service announcement I 100% can get behind. Cheers, Benny

Listen to Blackout Benny's Tie One On Tonight #13 via Mixcloud right here. Fans of late 50s and early 60s country gems by Skeets McDonald, Wanda Jackson, Slim Whitman, Sonny Curtis, Kirk Hansard and others will be delighted. 

Happy Halloween from Blackout Benny!

Check out Blackout Benny's creepy cool 'n' countrified selection of 25 haunted hillbilly classics from beyond the grave. 

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Tie One On Tonight episode #11 - Blackout Benny's Halloween Special brings you 25 spooked out, kooked out, haunter hoot'd out country music tunes from 1950 - 1974. Ghost trucks, trains and highways to witches, strange boxes, Devil doings, martians, witch doctors, murder and more! This episodes "NEWER" band is the recently PNW relocated Bear Flag Trio. Originally from Sacramento, CA. these 2 fellas and 1 gal nail down a solid tune about the lonely highway 395. Crack a cold one, turn it up and give in to the darkest slabs of country vinyl 45s I've found yet featuring goulish gems courtesy of Jack Rivers, Ted West, Bill Carlisle, Jimmy Wolford, Carson Robison And The Pleasant Valley Boys and more. The legendary Olaf Jens created the suitably chilling artwork. 

Check out Blackout Benny's Halloween Special on Mixcloud right here.