Ghoultown – Tales from the Dead West (CD-Review)

Ghoultown - Tales from the Dead West

Ghoultown create music that I have difficulties to categorize. It sounds a bit like Country, but is based mainly on electric guitars. The atmosphere is gloomy, although the music doesn’t take itself overly serious at this.

Allegedly, the genre is called “Gothabilly” – a term which I did not encounter until I recently took a look at my OMI-Profile. 🙂 I think there is a certain similarity to Tito & Tarantula – although I do not really know this band.

Unfortunately, I listened only to one CD of Ghoultown, their debut Tales from the Dead West. I don’t know if the newer albums are as good or even better.

Confusingly, there seem to be different versions of Tales from the Dead West. I have the version of the year 2000 which has 10 Tracks. The German branch of Amazon lists a version from 2002 which contains 15 tracks and one video. It also contains Ten Seconds To Blood which was together with Killer in Texas my first contact with Ghoultown.

Samples

Sadly, the CD is hard to find in Germany and it is also not in the repertoire of Last.fm. The only place to get a few samples that I know of is CD-Baby.

Tracks on the version of 2000

  1. La Noche Diablo
  2. RotoRiculous
  3. Killer in Texas
  4. Ghost Riders in the Sky
  5. The Burning
  6. The Worm
  7. Midnight Train
  8. Gunslinger
  9. Death of Jonah Hex
  10. Running from the Sun

Tracks on the version of 2002

  1. Boots of hell
  2. Killer in Texas
  3. After 2
  4. Rotoriculous
  5. Ghost riders in the sky
  6. The burning
  7. The worm
  8. Midnight train
  9. Gunslinger
  10. Death of Jonah Hex
  11. Running from the sun
  12. La noche diablo
  13. Pale skin diva
  14. Southern witch
  15. Ten seconds to blood
  16. Killer in Texas (Video) (Data Track)

(via Kreativrauschen.de)