Sunday, December 05, 2010

Christmas Music That Doesn't Suck: The Blackstone Valley Sinners - The Cold Hard Truth About Christmas


This is a side project by the one and (I assume) only, Slim Cessna of Slim Cessna's Auto Club fame. Under the BVS banner, Slim and some friends releases an off-kilter country album fueled by a drum machine and Slim's ability to conjure a weird, warped vision of the world around us. It was called It's a Sin, and it was pretty darned good (and features a couple songs that would also be recorded under the SCAC flag). But the BVS Christmas album is, I think, their real achievement.

Christmas Reviews calls the album "twisted themes of love gone horribly wrong." What it really is, is that great Denver Sound SCAC does but with a Christmas thread strung through it.

Here's "Christmas Will Be Just Another Lonely Day" from the record:

Anyways, grab the album here.

2 comments:

j said...

do you have an mp3 of "to heck with old santa claus"? it's the only holiday song i know that features tanya donelly. i want it in mp3 format and the only site that has it is itunes which is not mp3 compatibile. would really appreciate it.

j said...

e-mail me at siriannijm@yahoo.com if you do. thanks!