Mini album review: 100 Damned Guns’ Musica de Tormento

by Staff of The Gobblers Knob

A few months ago, I directed your attention to a blog post from one of my favorite blogs. Lance from Bona Fide Darling had a few thoughts on one of the DFW area’s best country bands, 100 Damned Guns. I recently (and finally) listened to their newest album, Musica de Tormento (TXMF), and wish I hadn’t waited so long to get up to date.

100 Damned Guns are typically referred to as “Alt-Country.” I’m sure it comes as no shock to anyone that I wish their brand of gospel-infused country, flavored with homemade moonshine that is guzzled on the back porch while a little pickin’ and grinnin’ is going on, wasn’t the “alt” to what we are force-fed, as opposed to the actual mainstream content itself. Dave Sherrill’s warm and simple vocal style fulfils its role perfectly. The even-keeled performance complements the authenticity of the subject matter and binds it together with the musical performance. Heck, “Broken Bottle Blues” and “Aint That Bad Anymore” could almost be confused for numbers out of your local southern-baptist hymnal if it wasn’t for the descriptive tales of life on the wrong side of the tracks.