Trailer Bride

about

Chapel Hill, NC-based insurgent country band Trailer Bride was led by singer/songwriter Melissa Swingle, a onetime member of the all-female trio Pussy Teeth. Following that band's demise, Swingle switched from bass to guitar, began writing songs and formed Trailer Bride Southern Gothic alt-country outfit, in 1993 with upright bassist Daryl White. Following a succession of drummers, Brad Goolsby joined the line-up, and with the addition of lead guitarist Bryon Settle, the roster was complete. They come from a land full of snakes, ticks, chiggers, dangerous, stultifying heat and humidity--all sorts of flying and crawling things that will bite you if you let yourself get too dreamy and unfocused. You even have to keep your eye on the plants; they have Venus fly traps and poison sumac and oak and ivy. Given such an environment, it’s no wonder that Trailer Bride move at their own pace, that their songs weave wearily and warily through the woods, and that they somehow recreate the sound of sweat rolling down a glass of iced tea, or of a vine creeping up the leg of couch left out on the porch The Mississippi-born frontwoman picked up a taste for juju while attending missionary school in the Ivory Coast and taught herself guitar while pregnant with her daughter. Her enticing drawl beckons listeners to set a spell while she spins yarns about the ghosts in the trees. Live, she will charm you with her endearing, spastic, arrhythmic dance she does when her eyeballs are rolled up in he

albums

Hope Is A Thing With Feathers

High Seas

Whine De Lune

Smelling Salts

Trailer Bride

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Down to the Promised Land: 5 Years of Bloodshot Records

Bloodshot Records Spring Cleaning Sampler

Lonely Hearts Valentine's Day Sampler

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Terror on the High Seas

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Hard Headed Woman: A Celebration of Wanda Jackson

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Poor Little Knitter On The Road

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Hard-Headed Woman: A Celebration of Wanda Jackson