yayhoos

one of the best-kept secrets in post-millennial rockaroll be's the yayhoos, a quartet of rootsy, _seasoned and mature_ mofos with a bloodline that includes joan jett's blackhearts (for whom yayhoo eric "roscoe" ambel wrote "i love rock and roll"), the georgia satellites (yayhoos' lineup includes both dixie-fried frontguy dan baird and _original_ frontguy keith christopher, and yayhoos drummer terry anderson penned their second single "battleship chains"), and steve earle (who's employed both ambel and christopher in his touring band). four lead singers! four songwriters! the mind boggles. i once saw 'em in big d at poor david's on a goin'-to-sxsw chump-change gig where the audience consisted of 24 people, eight of whom were on the guest list. roscoe let me play his telecaster; he uses the heaviest strings imaginable (.013-.056) and he _bends_ 'em, too. their new alb put the hammer down is released june 20th, altho you can pre-order it now and have it ship march 28th. sound samples on their website.