The Ghost Wolves

We've covered some "legacy-rock" bands in this space before - The Beat Dolls, MoTel Aviv, Wild Child, to name a few. And we've covered some 2-person bands before - Before Dawn, Killa Dilla, BK & Mr. E, Not in the Face...

So you won't be surprised if we tell you about a duo that does "roots rock", will ya? Good, because you've got to hear The Ghost Wolves.

There they are. That's Carley Wolf on the left and Jonathan Konya on the right. And the dog, and that's it.

Wolf sings and plays guitar, Konya sings and plays drums. And they crank out some seriously deadly stuff, described by better scribes than we as "juke joint spook blues". Both are veterans of the music industry, with a killer work ethic and lengthy resumes (and presumably the scars to match). They formed in May of 2010, recorded their debut LP "In Ya Neck" in April of 2011, then hit the touring trail in August.

They've been pressed to pieces, so if you want, you can drill down easily enough: Check out this piece on Austin 360, or this one over on Overload, or this one in the Knoxsville press.

That's them in action, snapped during their residency at the Lakeside Lounge in NYC. Imagine what that sounds like, with Wolf's guitar twanging and Konya's drums bounding off those brick walls, and you've got a head start on what to expect - "Roots rock" at it's very best; archaic, folk-bluesy head-bang, noisily reverberated and performed with sloppy passion. Check out this one for a taste, and Sure, go ahead and listen to it several times before moving on: We did.
They're able to present the very best of the lovely deep traditions of rock; primitive song structure, pleasingly-familiar progressions, face-melting riffs, unfettered noisy productions. Check out this one, notice how easy it is to whip out the air guitar and jam along:
We could go on, but you should discover the rest of the EP, in it's purely-raw state, all on your own - It's embedded below.

We'll recommend that you catch them next chance you get, and those chances are coming: They're touring until the end of 2011, on pace to cross the country twice before the year is out. They've got two Austin gigs coming up, 11/15 at The Continental Club, then their official CD release party for "In Ya Neck" on 11/19 at Beerland, find out more about that one here.

Nope, don't go until you've prepped yourself for that CD release party:

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Find out more about The Ghost Wolves on Facebook and Home Base.

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