Denim Boot Ponies

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Denim Boot Ponies (formerly known as Your Basic Blue Denim Boot Ponies) center around the songwriting team of JT Johnson & BD Jones and the recently added (2009) multi-instrumentalist DD Kapps. Reformed in 2008 after a nearly 20 year hiatus, the Denim Boot Ponies sound that had been hinted at in one of their earliest recordings, "I Found da Lord," finally came of age and to fruition. Denim Boot Ponies released their debut recording "Big Hats & Ultimatums" in January 2009. It is available at the usual capitalist enterprises, including amazonmp3.com, iTunes, Naptster, and Rhapsody, among others . Prolific song producers, the "Dagnabit" EP followed in the summer of 2009, and the "Git Mounted!" full-length album will be released by the close of 2009. The Alt.Country/Psychobilly description comes not from any particular genre being more accurate than any other; they are simply psychotic hillbillies at heart. (Note: the term "Psychobilly" comes from a ]Johnny Cash song about working on a GM assembly line and a Cadillac coming home from work slowly in a lunch pail over the course of several years). Denim Boot Ponies sound evolved from their original 1970's punk bands back into their even more ancient country roots. The bad attitude of the early punk bands is still present. Evident in their music are the politics and topicality of Woody Guthrie, the sung-from-the-heart-and-through-the-nose "high n lonesome" style vocals of Hank Williams crossed with Johnny Cash with a dirt roa