Rattlesnake Milk

One Liner:  Laid back rockabilly grooves

Wikipedia Genre:  No Wikipedia, but Americana and rockabilly?

Home: South Texas

Poster Position: 5 (23) 
Weekend Two Only.
Saturday.

Thoughts:  No Wikipedia, so I'm depending on offbeat little articles about them.  One claims that they come from the "great desolate southern plains of Texas."  I really want to know where that is supposed to be.  The same article later says they were formed in Lubbock in 2013 (which I hope they are not considering to be south Texas) by singer Lou Lewis who was farming cotton at the time.  He apparently recorded eight demos in his childhood bedroom by himself, and then a few friends heard the tapes and decided to jump on board.  Also, says they later moved together to Austin.  (please let this person writing this article think that Austin is the "great desolate southern plains of Texas.")  Amazingly, that article never mentions any other town, so the writer at www.holler.country believes that either Lubbock or Austin is the "great desolate southern plains of Texas."  Big fan.

Other fun tidbits from that article - lead singer's first CD ever was My Way by Usher, all of the members are either full or half Mexican, and they shout out Nirvana, Slipknot, and Eminem.  The music itself is nothing like those things, it is more of an Americana, rockabilly, surf rock, shambling pastiche of chilled country sounds.  I like it.

Three albums - 2014's Snake Rattle and Roll (no song breaks 25k streams), 2020's Rattlesnake Milk (one is over 450k!), and 2022's Chicken Fried Snake.  Almost all of their top tracks are from the new album, with three from the second album hanging around in the list.  Top track is "Cowboy Killers" from the second disc.  446k streams.

I dig the shambling beginning, sounds old and loose and groovy.  Apparently there is a full on band named Cowboy Killer, as well as other artists like That Mexican OT (1.5 million views of his video!  And a deeeeeeply awful track!) and Kenny Feidler with songs named the same thing.  Second-most streamed tune is from the new disc.  ".38 Special" with 246k streams.

Another where the groove just sucks me in before the song has even really gotten off the ground.  Makes me want to bob my head and chill out as soon as the first notes roll on out.  It is spare stuff, and a little weird in these modern times, but I would freaking love a set from these guys at some intimate little Cactus Club type joint.  If they're playing the right set time, I'd check it out.