Swank

Swank's first album, "Pappy's Corn Squeezins" (2001) was conceived by the band to sound like The Ramones playing Johnny Cash. Produced by Howard Redekopp, the album was described by the legendary Ray Condo as "New Wave Country"-an apt description for a fine debut that holds its own to this day. The group's second album "The Survival Issue" (2004), also produced by Howard Redekopp won huge critical favour across North America and Europe (rated 9/10 by Americana UK) as much for its unique sleeve design as for its inspired music and lyrics. Many of the songs on "The Survival Issue" were inspired by the events of 2001 and the resulting U.S. paranoia and xenophobia that followed. A computer animated video of a song from this album, "How Do We do!" directed by Patrick Carroll (The spiderman Series, Mainframe) was recently used in one of the final episodes of the TV series "Smallville", with two of the actors performing it as a karaoke song. Their third album, "Campfire Psalms" (2008) produced by Howard Redekopp and Swank was the band's sprawling opus, a two disc set with a wide variety of seventeen songs on one disc, and ten videos on the other that can be viewed as music videos... more...