The Shooting Gallery formed in Louisville KY, summer of 2003.
The band's 12-song debut CD, "Dark and Bloody Ground", was produced, recorded and mixed by The Shooting Gallery and Jeff Carpenter at Al Fresco's Place, Louisville, KY. September/Decem [+]The Shooting Gallery formed in Louisville KY, summer of 2003.
The band's 12-song debut CD, "Dark and Bloody Ground", was produced, recorded and mixed by The Shooting Gallery and Jeff Carpenter at Al Fresco's Place, Louisville, KY. September/December - 2003
Our sound has been described as Rock With A Twang, Cow Punk, Americana, Alt Country and Roots Rock. Since our sound is influenced by many diverse styles of music, we don't really care to be pinned into any one particular category, but all of these labels apply to a degree and we'll take them.
We're influenced and inspired by the likes of Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Waylon Jennings, Dwight Yoakam, George Jones, Johnny Cash, The Long Ryders, John Prine, Merle Haggard, Uncle Tupelo, Carl Perkins, The Replacements, Hank Williams Sr., Nick Cave, Bob Dylan, The Band, Neil Young, Drive-By Truckers, Social Distortion, Gram Parsons and The Carter Family.
Well...you get the idea.
You could say we have a Country Soul and a Rock and Roll heart.
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Reviews of "Dark and Bloody Ground"
Just like Donnie and Marie Osmond, the Shooting Gallery is a little bit country and a little bit rock 'n' roll.
On "Dark and Bloody Ground," the band recruits some of Louisville's finest roots rock talent, including Ian Thomas (Satchel's Pawn Shop), Steve Ferguson (NRBQ), Catherine Irwin (Freakwater) and Wink O'Bannon (Bodeco), to create a solid and swinging debut record.
From start to finish, "Dark and Bloody Ground," toes the line of country rock, never quite descending into campy backwoods stomps that mar other Americana records.
The full swagger of honky tonk bravado shines through on "The Desert Song," in which John Ashley sings, "I drank my share of straight Kentucky bourbon/Never paid no mind to a preacher's sermon," over an acoustic shuffler.
Ashley's vocals run the spectrum from warm and reserved on the soft lamentation "The Cross She Wears" to a full-throttle whiskey roar on "Northbound Train."
By Joshua Hammann
www.velocityweekly.com
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Not much is black and white in The Shooting Gallery's world. It's more blood red and purple bruises, with a little amber left over at the bottom
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