Instead of splitting a single, these two modern Austin outlaws form a two-song, heaven-and-hell alliance. Between Biram’s country-punk trucker blues, and country horror cineaste/axe mercenary Dayton rattles real-life desperado David Allan Coe, and more prize Gary Stewart renaissance on the undercard. Trading raw, undressed vox on back-shack gristle blues, the two locals bash out the redneck A-side, but the session producer and studio owner of Hiram’s Hell Hole croons a suede-smooth bit of soulful Stewart as essential as anything in his own deep catalog.


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This article appears in August 16 • 2019.

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San Francisco native Raoul Hernandez crossed the border into Texas on July 2, 1992, and began writing about music for the Chronicle that fall, debuting with an album review of Keith Richards’ Main Offender. By virtue of local show previews – first “Recommendeds,” now calendar picks – his writing’s appeared in almost every issue since 1993.