Sugar & Joy - CD

Sugar & Joy is The Dead South's third studio album and is their first written and recorded outside Regina. Produced by FAME Studio-trained Jimmy Nutt, a longtime member of the Muscle Shoals music scene whose recent credits include a Grammy for his work on The Steeldrivers, Sugar & Joy is The Dead South's tightest, weirdest and most exciting studio work yet. "They have an obvious dedication to what they are doing," says Nutt. "They really encourage each other, which you don't see a lot."

The ongoing question of what is, or is not, bluegrass music, occasionally froths up in The Dead South's wake as they speed on to the next gig. Cue "Blue Trash," a song built on a perfectly bluegrassy banjo lick about…not being a bluegrass band. "Blue Trash" is a love letter – not apologia – to the purists, for The Dead South come in peace.

Tracklist
1- Act of Approach
2- Diamond Ring
3- Blue Trash
4- Black Lung
5- Fat Little Killer Boy
6- Broken Cowboy
7- Snake Man Pt. 1
8- Snake Man Pt. 2
9- Heaven In A Wheelbarrow
10- Crawdaddy Served Cold
11- Alabama People
12- Spaghetti
13- Distance Oneself

Credits
The Dead South is: Nathaniel Hilts, Scott Pringle, Daniel Kenyon, and Colton Crawford

All songs written and arranged by The Dead South except: Black Lung by JC Ortiz, Heaven In A Wheelbarrow by Keiran Semple, and Diamond Ring by Nathaniel Hilts, Scott Pringle, Daniel Kenyon, Colton Crawford and Erik Mehlsen

Produced by The Dead South and Jimmy Nutt
Record by Jimmy Nutt and Cody Simmons at The NuttHouse Recording Studio, Sheffield, AL
Mixed by Jimmy Nutt
Mastered at Joao Carvalho Mastering by Joao Carvalho
Album artwork by Anna Pringle
Layout by Chris Peters

Released October 11, 2019

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