Fill your jug up with homebrew. Take it round back of the barn. Pass it around until one of you slip off or disappear. If you can't figure out who it is that got up and left, then you know you have the good stuff.
These are the principles by which the Blind Corn Liquor Pickers pick corn liquor.
As for music, they have no principles at all. It's just whatever feels right. Bluegrass, of course, takes the biggest hit, but folk, swing, progressive rock, funk, and jazz all have their genre boundaries violated. The result is bluegrass that rocks, grooves, surprises, offends, and rebels against the rules that bind it.
The songs are tough, taut and fraught with some simply amazing words, subject matters and imagery. And the band plays with some real fire and gusto. Now this is the way edgy bluegrass should sound! Beth's soaring, bluesy vocals add another whole dimension to your already multi-faceted sound. ~ Dave Higgs, Host of NPR's "Bluegrass Breakdown"
Beth Walker, the new lead singer, has to be heard to be believed. Think Janis Joplin reincarnated as a bluesy mountain singer.
~ Keith Lawrence, Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer
These tunes are up-beat, energetic, and rousingly high-spirited, the lyrics fresh, wry, witty, intelligent, and chock-full of good-natured mischief. If the Beatles were reincarnated as 21st Century punkabilly Kentuckians, they'd probably sound a whole lot like the Blind Corn Liquor Pickers.
~ Ed McClanahan (novelist, Merry Prankster) for The Nougat
Call them bluegrass postmodernists if you must. Jokey, ironic, swept up in explorations of sometimes preposterous fears, insecurities and fancies, they offer up familiar themes and then jerk them sharply leftward. When you've recovered from the shock -- if you haven't already been tossed out the window -- you're positioned to enjoy the rest of the ride.
Jerome Clark, Rambles.Net
The Blind Corn Liquor Pickers play what can only be called rowdy, party-time bluegrass-rock.it makes for a heck of a ride.
~ Mare Wakefield, Performing Songwriter
The recording defies description so you need to give it a listen to appreciate the genius behind it.
~ Bluegrass Now, "For the Records"
The songs are packed so tight you couldn't get a half a bar free to sip your beer in. Even the mournful finale of "8-Ball" wastes not a single bit of forward energy in carrying the tune and lyric from the beginning to the end. It's the kind of song Johnny Cash could have sung. It's music that sounds like it's been distilled and purified though three generations at least. Confident, effortless and irresistible, you would have to have a heart of coal and dancing shoes of lead not to fall in love with this stuff.
~Sam Saunders, Whisperin & Hollerin on Anywhere Else
