Bad Operation - Bad Operation - VINYL LP

Released 2023 - 150g black vinyl - single LP package with front and back 24x12 insert with original artwork and lyrics. All Bad, the latest album from Nick Shoulders, ultimately encapsulates everything that makes Shoulders' inimitable form of country music so vital a heady balance of dazzling musicianship and punk defiance, coupled with gritty eccentricity and a generational connection to the roots of the genre. With a singing style inherited from his family's vocal lineage, Nick's songs achieve the rare feat of imparting difficult truths while inciting a certain joyful abandon, balancing a sound forged by years of hard travel with a heartfelt reverence for the origins of country music. In the spirit of Hazel Dickens and Jimmy Driftwood, the incisive yet wildly jubilant All Bad vocally objects to the reckless destruction of the natural landscape and development run rampant, while still offering plenty of joy and dance-ready rhythms. Spanning a variety of early country styles, the album's infectious harmonies shine alongside everything from jangling cajun waltzes to surf-rock infused bluesy ballads-all tied together by a voice seemingly out of place in this century, yet ever ready to speak up about it's problems. Released via Gar Hole Records (a tag founded and co-owned by Shoulders), All Bad marks the first LP made with his longtime band, the Okay Crawdad, since 2019's premier full-length Okay, Crawdad and their subsequent pandemic-imposed hiatus. After writing most of the album from the front seat of a tour van, the Fayetteville, AR-based musician and bandmates Grant D'Aubin (harmonies/bass), Cheech Moosekian (drums) and Jack Studer (lead guitar) recorded the album in a home studio on the banks of the Mississippi river with New Orleans collaborators Ross Farbe and Sam Doores. Surrounded by a singing style passed down from a time before microphones, Nick's childhood

After exploding onto the scene and turning just about every head in the reggae and ska world with their debut LP InchDirty ReggaeInch, this upstart group of hooligans set their sights on bigger stages, and new opportunities. • First time available as a double LP • Cut at 45RPM, louder and better sounding than ever! Album Tracks 1. Dirty Reggae 2. Hot Stop 3. Jimmy Jack 4. Stampede 5. Keep It Cool 6. Joe Grind 7. Pop the Trunk 8. Lunar Eclipse 9. Womens Rule 10. Burning Bush 11. Dirty Reggae 12. The Aggrolites 13. Funky Fire 14. Mr. Misery 15. Time to Get Tough 16. Thunder Fist 17. Countryman Fiddle 18. Work to Do 19. Death at Ten Paces 20. Someday 21. The Volcano 22. Heavier Than Lead 23. Sound of Bombshell 24. Fury Now 25. 5 Deadly Venoms 26. Grave Digger 27. Prisoner Song 28. Love Isn't Love 29. Sound By the Pound 30. Lightning & Thunder 31. A.G.G.R.O 32. Reggae Hit L.A 33. Work It 34. Faster Bullet 35. You Got 5 36. Reconcile 37. Reggae Hit L.A 38. Left Red 39. Let's Pack Our Bags 40. Free Time 41. Lucky Streak 42. Rhythm & Light 43. Well Runs Dry 44. Fire Girl 45. IV 46. Firecracker 47. What a Complex 48. Wild Time 49. Feelin' Alright 50. The Sufferer 51. It's Time to Go 52. By Her Side 53. Brother Jacob 54. Musically on Top 55. Reggae Summertime 56. Ever Want to Try 57. Keep Moving on 58. Tear That Falls 59. Gotta Find Someone Better 60. Lick It Up 61. The Least I Could Do 62. Runnin' Strong 63. Precious and Few 64. Tonight 65. Soul Gathering 66. It's Gonna Be O.K 67. Rugged Road 68. Trial and Error 69. Enemy Dub 70. Dreamin on Erie 71. Eye of Obarbas 72. The Aggro Band Plays on 73. Camel Rock 74. In the Cut 75. The Heat 76. Complicated Girl 77. Out of Sight 78. Reggae Now! 79. Pound for Pound 8

Album Tracks 1. Plains of Africa (Echo, Echo, Echo) 2. Alive and Burning Bright 3. Right Back to Your Soul 4. Stay Tuned 5. Pleasurezone Transmitter 6. Command Centre 7. Corporate Takeover 8. No Lightweight Here 9. Intercommunications