Old Scratch Comes To Appalachia

New dark singer songwriter album by Iron Man / Spiral Grave-singer Dee ‘Screaming Mad Dee’ Calhoun. Old Scratch Comes To Appalachia is a story of the dark one riding the rails to collect souls from the small corners of the world. It illustrates how the line between what’s good and what’s evil can be blurred once corruption has taken hold.

The instrumentation of the songs features a lot of elements to really give the music a dark, backwoods kind of feel; shovel guitars, diddley bows, cigar box guitars and even a banjo appearance.

The album coincides with the release of Dee’s fifth book-release, ‘Old Scratch Comes To Appalachia (Four Devilish Novelettes)’. CD1 of this two disc digipack release features ten songs, while CD2 features the audiobook of the title novelette, read by the author. Again joining Dee are bassist Louis Strachan (Iron Man) and percussionist Rob Calhoun (who also sings lead vocals on two tracks).

For fans of Ledfoot, Mark Lanegan, Wino, Wovenhand, Eddie Vedder, Sivert Hoyem, Nick Cave, Sergio Ch. and Steve Von Till.