The Yawpers NEW Single Sister Mary

Denver, Colorado three piece band The Yawpers are not a band looking for a sound or a genre, with their EP Savage Blue, 2012’s debut full length ‘Capone Crusade’ the recently released underground bootleg "Good Songs/Shitty Versions" you’ll find they’re a band with a sound and style all their own. So perhaps they are looking for a sound they can’t tackle so they can say ‘well okay then let’s cross that off the list?’ With this latest single the voluminous 60's poppy/psych groovy ‘Sister Mary’ the lads are batting a thousand. Since I first heard this band I was intrigued by their unique sound and effortless way they incorporate disparate pieces of the American musical lexicon into it, so I for one am not surprised nor dissapointed by the direction of this song, it fits them well.
Band member Nate Cook puts it this way…

“This is completely different for us so we're doing a super underground release in that we aren't even announcing it, or making it available for sale at least not for a while, just kind of giving it to a few people, and letting them spread it how they will. It's far enough outside of our normal range that I’m curious to see how people react to it before we get behind it totally. And if you know anyone who would be interested in hearing it, please pass it along”

The Yawpers are in the process of working on their next record, of which I am eagerly awaiting but in the meantime download this single, spread it like butter over hot mountian oysters and download their cover songs "Good Songs/Shitty Versions" on my guest post over at Common Folk Music

The Yawpers - "Good Songs/Shitty Versions"

Photo: George Blosser

Nate Cook, Jesse Parmet, James Hale

Last year at this time October 30th The Yawpers dropped one of the best albums of 2012, their debut LP "Capon Crusade" an expansive and diverse blending rock/blues riffs, country twang with punkitude.
Coming October 31st, in what the lads may have entered into as a lark, at a studio in Bill Douglass/Royal Recording Colorado Springs "Good Songs/Shitty Versions" Recorded in one day at a studio in Colorado Springs. (Bill Douglass/Royal Recording) is a covers album as only The Yawpers can do, rough, loose, let the shit hit the fan and see what sticks. What sticks is every song on this great covers album. It isn’t easy doing covers unless you completely own the songs and make them your own, The Yawpers do just that in their brazen style.

They twang up ‘Sweet Emotion’ with a Rock a Billy middle finger to "The Bad Boys from Boston"
The King gets punked and capowned as the lads tighten and hoist their tighty whiteys for background vocals on ‘Suspicious Minds’
Slowing it down as Ween pleas on,  ‘Booze Me Up and Get Me High’ The Yawpers demand ‘Booze Me Up and Get Me High’
Yakety Yak (The Coasters) gets blasted to high heaven and falls back down to earth in glorious pieces of debris.  Can you cover yourself? The Yawpers take their song ‘Silicone Love’ speed it up, surf it up and add a punk a billy attitude to it.
Ripping through Ace of Spades (Motorhead) like meth head maniacs, guitars ablaze and drums pounding at the gates of hell leaving Lemmy asking ‘What the fuck just happened?’

"Good Songs/Shitty Versions" Track List: (right click save as)

1.       Sweet Emotion (Aerosmith)

2.   Suspicious Minds (Elvis)      

3.       Booze Me Up and Get Me High (Ween)

4.   Yakety Yak (The Coasters)      

5.       Silicone Love (The Yawpers) yes they cover themselves

6.       Ace of Spades (Motorhead)

I ask Nate about how this came together:

For real, we just wanted to make something quick, dirty, and fun for our fans to hold them over until our next release in the Spring. And yeah, it was a total fucking blast. Zero pressure. When you're not overly invested, it's easier just to let things fly. 
It's just stupid versions of good songs. We might call it that, actually ... 'Stupid Versions of Good Songs.'

The Yawpers - Debut LP "Capon Crusade"

Photo courtesy of Audiovore. Photo: Michael McGrath

Nate Cook, Jesse Parmet, James Hale, Dave Romano

The Yawpers - upcoming release of their debut LP, "Capon Crusade". The album will drop Oct. 30th. Recorded in just under two weeks at UI Studios in Boulder, "Capon Crusade" is the band's attempt at making a raw, unpolished, and unabashedly American record.

From it's very first song this album makes it clear it is going to kick your ass and not ask you for your name. The guitar work is expansive and diverse blending rock/blues riffs, country twang with punkitude. The bottom end is speaker rattilin' pound the steering wheel and hit the gas good. Nate's vocals have a very unique style yet he seems to channel everyone from Bob Dylan to Iggy Pop. Having only been together for a year these Colorado lads in my opinion have created a piece of art, a sculpture of sounds and styles that offer something new and exciting from every angle. This is a must purchase when it comes out in October, I wish I could stream the whole album for you but for now listen to this three song sampler.


Bio:
Led by dynamic young singer-songwriter/guitarist Nate Cook, Boulder quartet the Yawpers recall a grittier version of Wilco, with as much raw country sensibility as twisted indie imagination. Equally akin to Deer Tick, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan and Elvis, The Yawpers give a fresh blend of indie-country and rock ’n’ roll. Their debut full-length record, "Capon Crusade," will be released in October.
Check out this great video for the song 'Silicone Love'
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