Best known as the Emmy-nominated makers of “Long Hard Times to Come,” the theme song to the hit FX drama, Justified, Gangstagrass is back with their 5th installment of Bluegrass/Hip-Hop released through their Rench Audio Label. It’s the much anticipated live album, Pocket Full of Fire, performed with real emcees, real Bluegrass instrumentalists, with production supplied by their lead singer/guitarist Rench—who Rolling Stone Magazine named “10 New Country Artists You Need to Know” (April 2017).
After 4 independent releases, Pocket Full of Fire compiles some of the best songs performed live during their Spring 2018 Tour which included Atomic Cafe in St. Louis, Hi-Fi in Indianapolis and others. Gangstagrass continue in its uncompromising effort to make music that is both authentic and unpretentious—and family friendly, when requested, that is. As the late Elmore Leonard put it “Rench and his friends have done nothing short of creating a new form of music.”
Not only has Gangstagrass been on the forefront of the burgeoning genre sometimes known as “Hick-Hop,” they clearly blazed the trail, according to Rolling Stone! Gangstagrass come by it honestly: Rench, mastermind of the group, was schooled on Run DMC and break dancing while he was fed a steady diet of authentic country sounds like Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash.
Click here to pre-save Pocket Full of Fire on Spotify, which is set to drop February 15th!
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