Hearts and Daggers
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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"Hearts & Daggers play whiskey-soaked country with a rock flair, sounding like a less punkish Mike Ness or a less polished Old 97s."
Chris Parker, Indy Weekly
- Independent Weekly (Raleigh, NC)
"One part bluegrass, one part punk and a big dash of Cash, Hearts and Daggers references empty whiskey bottles, jilted lovers and gun-slinging men out to get revenge. Old school country fans should feel right at home."
Kathy Justice - Independent Weekly (Raleigh, NC)
Hearts & Daggers are a revival of the rebel cowboy; where punk-flare meets bluegrass. The bar melody, "What It Means to Cry," will surely have you remembering duets from Johnny Cash and June Carter. While most tunes from the North Carolina quartet resonate around old-fashioned whiskey, women and hard work, guitarist Ben Bucklew modernizes with electric blues. Their latest album, A Home for My Lonely Tears, is available now. (Chey Scott) - Creative Loafing (Charlotte, NC)
Discography
"A Home For My Lonely Tears" - EP
Released in 2005.
Radio airplay on WXDU and WKNC.
Streaming airplay on Hellbilly Wreckhouse, N.J.
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Bio
Hearts and Daggers is not bluegrass; nor is it pop-country or Haggard-era outlaw country. It is also too far removed from power chords to be cow punk, yet Hearts and Daggers live the hangovers and heartaches and reconstitute country music into what it SHOULD be nowadays; part chain-gang chants, part field hollers, part Jimmie Rodgers tuberculosis blues, part Jimmie Martin bluegrass harmonies, part Hank Sr., part Johnny Cash but most of all, ORIGINAL. Songs about killing, fightin, love, sinners, estranged lovers, murderers, and good men gone wrong. Songs that make you want to drink, dance, weep, holler, yell, and say Amen.
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