AJ Martin: vocals, guitars, harmonica, stomp box, writes the songs, runs the show
WITH:
Miss Palanti: drums and backing vocals on "Eve, Adam, & the Apple" album, silent treatment
Charlie: occasional live drums, broseph vibe
Player 1: recording engineer, tambourine, backing vocals, Busch 30 pack on "Eve, Adam, & the Apple" album
Donovan Foote: artwork, occasional four string guitar twanger
COMING SOON "Eve, Adam, & the Apple" on Devil's Bedpost Recordings. Ordering details tba...
ARTWORK BY DONOVAN FOOTE www.donovanfoote.com
"Slow Gun Shogun is a very ambitious one-man-band project from Chicago-based musician AJ. This demo comes highly recommended, especially for fans of Southern fried punk in the vein of Hellstomper or Hammerlock. Listening to these killer tracks feels like driving home from a hardcore show in Memphis, then ending up in a country bar across the border in Arkansas." –Razorcake
"Slow Gun Shogun conjures the defiant weariness of all three Hank Williams, Jon Langford and Mike Ness." – There Stands The Glass
“Other than the opener ‘Spinning Wheels’ and the dirgy blues pean to budget booze ‘Evan Williams Blues’ which follow a 50's covered in mud sound some curveballs are thrown. ‘Ace Rudy Haightley’ is like Roger Miller doing some kinda hillbilly speedball mix Xanax, weed and bourbon. ‘Wish I Could Fix It All (With Some Hoodoo)’ and ‘Lying Again’ have a Velvet Underground via C86 feel to them but a lot more twang. AJ, the man behind Slow Gun Shogun, looks like a biker in his pictures and sounds like he's having a good and possibly chemically altered time making his music and would be doing it whether he has other people jamming with him or not.” – Smashin’ Transistors
”Slow Gun Shogun has a brashness to it that, to me, conjured memories of some of the great rock and roll bands. It's not just the music and lyrics that provide this recollection; it's the ‘fuck you’ attitude of the music. Really, that's what rock and roll is all about. Anyone can recreate the sound, but to be truly great, you need that attitude. Some people are clearly born to create this kind of music. AJ Martin is one of them.”- PropCulture.com
Man I miss you. Are you going to the Deep Blues fest. I am thinking about hauling my trailer down there and showing them yanks how to cook some BBQ..(ha) Come with..if you are not already gonna be there?
