The Holy Ghost Electric Show

about

Corinth is in northeast Mississippi. It is not in the famed Delta. It is not on the redneck riviera of the gulf coast. It is nestled in the hills that will become the mountains. It is of the land Mississippi Fred McDowell and the Hill Country bluesmen R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough sprouted roots. It is the big bright buckle of America's Bible Belt and it is the original home of Holy Ghost Electric Show. Depending on what you would imagine the sons of preachers playing rock music in Corinth would sound like, HGES sounds exactly what you imagine...or nothing like it. Brothers Cody (songwriter, lead vocals, rhythm guitar) and Jake Rogers (guitar and banjo), Will Shirley (guitar), Connor Wroten (bass), Austin Wheeler (drums) and Jesse James (trombone and keys), have created by way of their debut, THE GREAT AMERICAN, an album that speaks well beyond their years (the band has a median age of 22 years.) The brothers Rogers were raised with issues of religion, race and moral equivocation worn on sleeves...not hidden or neglected in favor of more polite conversation. Their father started a church designed to bring rival gang members into the same building to worship together. This was their childhood. Cody's songs bear this out. Touching on these subjects and many others of both the personal and global variety, he weaves word and sound into anthems of triumph and wonderment. Musically, the band utilizes country and folk rhythms but indulges rock ‘n roll and noise rock, recallin

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The Great American Holy Ghost Electric Show

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SINAI

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This Is American Music 2015 Sampler

The Holy Ghost Electric Show

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Musicians for Le Bonheur: The Digital Album, Volume 2

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Fire On The Mountain

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No More Auction Block For Me

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The Cabin Tapes

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The Great American

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Musicians for Le Bonheur 2014

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Final Tracking Demos

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Another Fucking Mix

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