Poverty Neck Hillbillies break up

[floodcitybrass]

No sure if anyone follows the local country scene but the Poverty Neck Hillbillies broke up.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08016/849419-42.stm


The one thing I always wondered is why they were the "Official Band of the Pittsburgh Steelers." WDVE was such a huge Steeler radio station supporting the Pittsburgh Steeler Football Network. Its seems like a conflict of interest. Oh well.

Here's your chance to be the new official band of the Steelers.

[UNEARTHA7XMatt]

Maybe if the Steelers didnt SUCK so bad!

[DrumAndDestroy]

Maybe if the Steelers didnt SUCK so bad!

looks like sever is out

[UNEARTHA7XMatt]

Sorry but had to be the one to throw that out. Its all this frustration from my team sucking even worse! But they are still tied with the Steelers for most Super Bowl Rings so!!!!!!!!!


Ok Let the bashing begin!

[homerski]

Just goes to show you how hard it is to keep artists working together as a team, even if (especially if) you are successful.

My favorite saying on this topic is, "Keeping a band together is like herding cats".

John H.

[xero380]

Never got to see these guys perform although they were on my list to go see soon...too late now obviously. It's a shame though that they couldn't get along because they were a very talented group.

[Bag]

I saw them open for Skynyrd in Pittsburgh. I thought they were pretty good, for a country band. Not exactly my cup of tea, but they were talented.

[songsmith]

I went to Burgi's one night a couple of years ago to see 'em. Instead of of putting down a sizeable cover charge (which I would normally gladly do), I enjoyed a good cigar and sat on a park bench outside, listening. They struck me the same way some other "country" acts did, throwaway country radio bands like Yankee Grey (Remember them? #1 hit a few years ago? Ring a bell? I didn't think so) or Ricochet (very talented, but disposable). A peek in the window disclosed that they had spent the better part of $100,000 on stage gear, and that their audience consisted of 100 girls who had no boyfriend for whatever reason, and 4 girls who brought their cuckolded boyfriends along.
I saw a pretty decent Top 40 band, Ramada/Sheraton-circuit quality, except for a fiddle player (who has a bluegrass background, but was okay at best) who was clearly the Big Cheese. He'd pose for the girlies, perma-flexed and perfectly tanned... it was clear the follow-spot operator had only one instruction... keep the light on Chris.
What I didn't see was a country band. Sure, they did the obligatory Johnny Cash song, but this was a pop band through and through. Country music is deeper than an ass-shaking contest. That shit you hear on the local amphibian-based radio conglomerate is NOT country music, and neither was Povertyneck Hillbillies.
That night at Burgi's, I left when I finished my Macanudo. I'd seen enough. I sat in with the Country Outlaws a few days later, a local country band. Way better, and I got to play some steel on REAL country music.--------->JMS

[bassist_25]

I've seen them advertised at Burgi's, but I'm not really familiar with their material. I went and found a Youtube video of their tune, Mr. Right Now. They're definitely a good band, though I'm not so crazy about the vocal mix on this track (word to engineers and producers: a tasteful dab of reverb goes a long way). I'm not a huge fan of modern country for the reasons that Johnny talked about, but it are what it are (please don't crucify me, Captain G.). I learned a few years ago that the more exciting country music right now is coming out of places like Austin, not the glamour and glitz of Nashville. I think that there are going to be a lot of talented singers and songwriters who are going to get dumped on their asses in a few years by the huge money-making machine that is Nashtown.

[red]

I agree with songsmith. We did a few shows with them at the Crowbar...they were what was selling on CMT. Goodlooking young men with tight pants playing pop music with cowboy hats on. What they did they did well, not my cup of tea tho. Not country music either, (they did have a good pedal-steel player)
anyways...cheers

[rreihart]

I wouldn't have ever listened to them based on their name alone. I think it was a really, really, really lame name.

[moxham123]

Here is their video for the song Mr. Right Now. There is a Steelers connection at the end of the video.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Fg4Oq4CU9_Y