Mississippi Bones - Tracks

Heavy In Ohio World

Here’s a stonking heavy stoner/country metal band and album, though calling them a ‘band’ is a misnomer in as much as it’s essentially two guys, Dusty Donley on guitars/programming and Jared Collins on vocals/bass/programming, so their sound, which is as heavy as the heaviest of heavy bands, is down to this duo and fake [it has to be, doesn’t it?] drums. The drums – are they digital drums then? – sound like they are being hit by a heavy-armed heavy-metal drummer. But they can’t be. They’re ‘programmed’. It’s a Brave New Heavy World.

They have some real people who play occasional real instruments too. Al Morris plays a real harmonica on the bluesy, and heavy, Jade Fire. Kjira Robinson guest-vocals for real on this as well as other consistently thunderous tracks. Sustained headbanging stuff for real!

There is a grunge sound rumbling through all the songs too, adding to the pervasive heaviness. Bill Mancuso adds some swirling organ to the booming and weighty ninth track Dungeon Hustle, wah-wah guitar just about emerging through the thick wall of sound.

It’s like Travis Tritt has been transported into another Country dimension and here is his Heavy doppelganger performing in this parallel musical universe that somehow looks and feels like Ohio.