Slackeye Slim Texas Whore Pleaser CD

In the fall of 2006, with the demise of his noise/punk band in the recent past, Joe Frankland began to look for a new band. Growing frustrated with the lack of creative musicians in his rural Northeast Ohio town, he decided to begin a solo project.Having no experience with any instrument other than bass guitar, he began to collect various instruments and learn how to play them. Frankland created a zombified and cannibalistic caricature of himself, based loosely on his frustrations with the modern world and American culture and his love for history and the American West. He called this character Slackeye Slim and began to write and record a series of songs.Slackeye Slim quickly gained enough of a following to share bills with many acts including Slim Cessna's Auto Club, Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers, Those Poor Bastards, and The .357 String Band.On Christmas Day of 2007, Slackeye Slim’s first album, Texas Whore Pleaser was released. Completely self-produced and self-released, the debut album features twelve tracks and guest vocals by Lonesome Wyatt of Those Poor Bastards. In March of 2008, Joe Frankland packed his things and headed west to the small boom and bust town of Anaconda, Montana. After undergoing several line-up changes, Joe Perreze (of The Perreze Farm) and R. Wolfe were recruited as permanent fixtures to the band.After nearly a year of experimenting with different musical styles, work began in December of 2008 on the second Slackeye Slim album, Santo Grial: La Pistola Piadosa.Partially co-written by fellow midwest refugee and former Montanan, Graham Lindsey, Santo Grial: La Pistola Piadosa employs influences in flamenco, Memphis soul, ethnic folk music, 1970's no wave, and various forms of experimental art music. It's half concept album, borrowing ideas from Akira Kurosawa, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Quinten Tarantino to tell the story of godless and sociopathic weird west outlaw, Drake Savage, and how he came to possess a gun that was crafted by the hand of God, forcing him to give up his wicked ways and do God’s will.Santo Grial: La Pistola Piadosa is expected to be released early in 2010. However, Slackeye Slim is already performing many songs from this release.