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Ribcast: The Shinyribs Podcast
by We will shine no ribs until it is time
Mr. Ribs makes mountains out of molehills, hay outta horse’s mouths, something outta nothing. Behind the scenes, long form tangents of uncommon grace and courage. Always a new song, unreleased song, outtakes from legendary recordings, etc shinyribs.substack.com
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Are You With Me?
What you love is the experience that you had. What you long for is to have that experience again. But you can’t put your foot in the same river twice. We are in constant motion, moving forward or backward, up, down, around. We don’t know even what direction it is. All we know is we perceive our...
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Bye Bye Ray Ray part 2
When i first heard you singing it was a quarter in the ol’ jukebox at a Carnation Ice Cream store and my daddy sang along with you Then I went to the Gaylynn Theater to see Smokey & The Bandit It was a watershed night for me One that i’ll never forget Bye bye Ray Ray i’ll see you on the other…
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In Memory Of Dan Nugent
This post has bonus content for paid subscribers. Upgrade to get full access. When life gives you dismal view of a rust belt city from your lonely hotel window, look beyond the devastation and realize you are gazing upon the Mississippi River. And if you focus on the slowness flowing Towards the...
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Ribsiliency
Sometimes in life feeling that something’s not there. And you go through life with that feeling of the absence of something that should be there. So what are you supposed to do with that? When you expected a comfy chair and a comfy chair should be there, you just have to make your own comfy…
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WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
1991 that makes 31 At the St. Rose of Lima out on Bayou Rd That’s where our story begins So sweetly to unfold Thru the tough times the crazy times Where does the time go tell me where does the Mississippi river flow After it reaches the Gulf of Mexico We shoulda stayed in our first house on…
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You Are Here
This is a video poem. An idea I had that I explored in some downtime in Northampton around the iron horse. Which was one of the best shows of this leg of our Real alligator rollout tour. I wrote this poem after I woke in the middle of the night in Norwich, New York. I can’t remember if it was the...
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Good For Nothing
Real alligator tour roll on We got rained out in Norwich last night. We got an hour in. It was raining most of the time we were playing. But these folks didn’t care they were prepared with their rain gear and they were dancing in the mud. Onto Northampton mass tonight for a sold out show at the...
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Members Only Live
Here’s an epic jam from Domino Room in Bend Oregon—our live version of Members Only, a Bonny “Blue” Bland cover in which we also segue into Shotgun Willie by Willie Nelson and back again with a lot of cool ass solos from Eric and Cat and I even take one a little bit, I think. Have I said this is…
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Arkansas Mud Live
As our new single gathers momentum at Radio, I thought it’d be fun to share this video edit I did of a live performance from Bend, Oregon at the domino room. This was from our last West Coast tour, which is to promote the release of real alligator. The library version varies slightly from the...
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Sunlight Is Starlight, Starlights Are Gold
This is made from 10 years of video, field recordings, found objects and forgotten gems. It may seem a bit odd or even disturbing, these layers of sonic bedlam and disjointed piles of video. But, I’ve long considered such works of density and comic chaos my raison d’être. Inspired by the likes of...
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Don’t Fence Big Bend
So there I was in the Saxon Pub at a memorial for Jon dee Graham. Up to my table walked a woman beckoning my attention.. I did not recognize her at first I hadn’t seen her in years. It was none other than Cathy Crane. Part of a friend group, who I refer to as the old guard of new sincerity. Cathy...
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Winston Salem Ramkat
So often promoters will request. I do a “shout out video” y’all have no doubt seeing many of these. I am ambivalent about them because I just don’t know if they move the needle in any meaningful way? The venues do share it with their clientele their community so you get some direct local impact...
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Video Ribs
Sorry for the bait click title. This post is simply about me leaning into video creation from writing, scripting, planning shots to editing and producing them. Suffice it to say I’m finding space for my unstructured imagination to shovel into these little weird movies— I seem to have a creative...
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Hey Ladies! Come Through!
It always moderately irks me when I dig down into my statistical insights on various platforms. These numbers shown are from Spotify. Mostly it’s just something to riff on for social media attention grabbing. With this video I tried some tricks I’ve learned from some other short form video…
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Levon Helm Studio Show Changed to Bearsville Theater
While we hope all parties can find some reconciliation and understanding for the good of all we must act in the best interests of our fans and make arrangements that are less volatile to conduct our business. Therefore we have moved our show at this late hour to Bearsville Theater on Aug 29 in...
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I Miss My Guitar
Buddy Was A Bluebird (for Buddy Flett) Buddy was a bluebird Never said a mean word To anyone who didn’t already deserve it He knew the way to make the guitar say Hard things and he served it On a silver platter It mattered to him about you and me and anyone who might see troubles and think They...
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I Got Your Medicine, Real Alligator
Y’all know, I love hidden connections between seemingly disparate things. So I wanna share a little secret connection between our now classic recording. I got your medicine, which is arguably the first and defining version of the swamp pop driven Shinyribs lineup featuring Tijuana train wreck…
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Up to the South w/Shortribs
This is true we’re coming up south from Tejas Ain’t nothing finer than RIBS, in Carolina Start a week from today April 23–new orleans Jazz fest April 25– the Ouachita River Fest in West Monroe, Louisiana April 26 – Radio room in Greenville, South Carolina April 27, a private event in South South...
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Playola East Texas Rust Radio
Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. And IOS users join my East Texas Rust Radio in the Playola App Playola Code This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...
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LIVE RIBS-ONE OF THESE DAYS
THis has become an all time favorite for the band to play. It has the gospel gravy and the country lazy thang. Plus it is autobiographical! Everytime I sing it I am taken back to my childhood on that green and blue shag carpet dancing to records and singing along, the dreams of ya boy done come...
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Tubgut Stomp & Red Eyed Soul
Top got stomp I originally wrote with the intention that it would explain what kind of music I play. I think I got it pretty accurate especially at the time I wrote it. Which I can’t remember when I wrote it to be honest. That could’ve been a good song, of course, but I just kept it around. It’s...
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Welcome To My Bubble
In my first Substack live stream I began by talking about Michael Jackson’s album thriller, and the song that actually starts it, though I didn’t know it at the time I have sent looked it up and seeing that wanna be starting something begins the thriller album. Which I think adds credence to my...
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Husker Du Had Zero Pocket Fat
My first who Husker Du cassettes were bought by my mother for my 17th birthday from my friend Dan Nugent at Sooto records In Shreveport, La. But this was the Sooto records that was on Mansfield Road. It wasn’t the one everybody thinks of on Kings Highway. There was a short period of time when...
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U R My Moonshine
U r my moonshine my only moonshine You make me mournful when skies are gay But for my loathing you shall not owe me Please don’t give my moonshine away. The other morning as you were waking You said you’d had an awful dream That I was sober as a judge and you took away my tambourine U r my...
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Love Alone
Edward VIII abdicated the British throne in December 1936 to marry Wallis Simpson, an American divorcée, a union opposed by the government, the Church of England, and the public due to her status as a twice-divorced woman. Facing immense pressure, he chose love over the crown, famously announcing...
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Best Of Ribfry-Wisteria Vine
Well there is actually another version of this I posted on here in Aug of 2024. But, this version feels for authentic to me. Sometimes songs get stuck in boxes under the bed too. Imagine my surprise when I found this song again, preserved on a performance video no less. Written on the tiple it…
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Last Month Of The Year
It just ain’t Christmas until the Donn’s Depot family decorates the bar with festive luminosity. This is one of my all time favorite Christmas songs I learned via The Staple Singers. I’ve done it for years every Christmas time. To capture it in such a beautiful way, Jeremy Sexton, the official...
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Merry Christmas, Meredith
Jay Stiles played with us for a while after the departure of Winfield Cheek. I count Jay among my favorite Canadians. Up there with Vancouver Val, BTO, and Neil Young. This is an unrecorded Christmas song I’ve always thought might make Kringle Tingle 2. The name Meredith I got from a local…
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Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
One of my favorite memories is recording this Christmas classic with my dad and Mason and Mama Ribs in the green room of The Kessler Theater in Dallas’ Oak Cliff neighborhood in what must’ve been 2021. I will revisit it every year from now on. And will always be grateful to Mason for helping me…
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Time Machine-Xmas On The Isthmus
OK, I gotta give credit to an old friend Jeff Boxschmidt who sang it at an annual Xmas recording party hosted by the long time Sound Engineer for the Gourds a guy named Jim Archuleta, also known as Rche. He used to have these parties at his house with all of his buddies and us and we would just...
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Demo-birth of One Of These Days
First draft demo for One Of These Days song off of Leaving Time This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shinyribs.substack.com/subscribe
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NEW SONG-MATAGORDA BAY
I don’t like laying in bed so long listening to your morning slog I’m getting up and go outside take a walk on the beach in the fog If you don’t mind, I’m walking the beach alone. It reminds me so much of home your tone last night wasn’t clear in spite of all your agreeability to sleep on it then...
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NEW SONG-HOSPITAL AGAIN
This song hospital again is my new favorite song. This often happens where I write a song and then just keep thinking about it and keep playing it and it just becomes the favorite. That's kind of how I choose songs that I want to record, is I just like the song, I like things about a chord...
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Song Writing Lab
Theory Of Entanglement vs Disenchantment A particle with zero spin can decay into two particles with opposite spin A thing that wants to be is at a disadvantage To a thing that’s already been Cables in a bag snarl Laces move in different directions As if unseen hands unbridled In between from end...
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Rugged Roses
Welcome all you wascalwee wibs fans you’ve been brought here through a portal from an egregiously evil social media empire. You’ve reached a safe place. Where only things pertaining to RIBS, have any meaning and for that you’ll be handsomely rewarded. That’s a promise from me, Mr. RIBS,.…
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Leaving Time Continues
Just a quick update and let y’all know how the tour goes and share some other fun things with you like recording a new song in Muscle Shoals. I actually recorded this couple days ago before I really got sick. Full head cold did a couple of shows with a cold and then lost my voice this morning so…
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Backpack backstory/ Patreon Announcement
See my post earlier this week for the whole story https://open.substack.com/pub/shinyribs/p/i-left-my-backpack-in-san-marcos?r=1on8q9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus...
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Pine Cone Steppin’
This is a little song I wrote quite a while ago, maybe pre-Covid. I can’t remember, but I’ve always loved it. It’s been around in my demo pile for a while. It’s another one in addition to Sundown On Mars that my good friend and Artist-In-Residence at Shinyribs Ashton Guy has always loved. So she…
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Bag O’ Weed
Sitting here having the morning coffee, listening to the Crow yell at the other birds finally, I hear a cardinal tripping the distance. Our backyard normally teaming with songbirds I hear nothing but the war of wheels on pavement and a single crow being a total shit head to the other birds.. Is…
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Married Mandolin
Written by Wim Venema From The Lazy Sunday Dream album Midsland Where have you been she screams in his face Holding her breath and then holding her pace Honey I know that look in your eye You better make up some damn good lies Honey I had to work till late Hey don't make me laugh it's a quarter...
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Vanilla Waver
The story of how I became a waver and how that led to me being moderately disappointed by a total stranger in Challis, ID This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shinyribs.substack.com/subscribe
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Morning’s Night Remix
Y’all might remember 2020 a novel virus had been unleashed on the world, shutting down civilization as we know it. We were all locked away in our homes twiddling our thumbs watching live streams and lots of Netflix. well almost everyone I knew was focused on Tiger King. Remember that? Ha ha well,...
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Love Trouble Alpha
Love trouble Alpha that’s how we write it on the set list and these three are often group together as a triplet a trio, a three song assault. Often coming early in the set these three usually set the tone for a more electric guitar driven rock ‘n’ roll set. I have found when I include this three...
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Call Me Al
So this video is, I don’t know how old it is. It says it’s two years ago, but this was during 2020. I know because this was part of the Sequestered Songwriter’s Facebook live stream that I joined about halfway through the Covid shut down. It was run by Jason Eady and Courtney Patton. They…
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3 Little Birds/I’ll Fly Away
Some of you may have witnessed this mash up that I keep in my back pocket for solo shows usually. The first time I remember doing this was at a memorial for friend, Wally Williams whose wife, Judy had passed. Also incidentally, it’s the first time I remember meeting Alice spencer. I remember I…
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Drag
I’m not sure when I wrote this song. But it has always been a fave. I am so glad to finally get it on a record and properly recognized in my repertoires. As I have said before, this song was inspired by a specific guitar, a Kalamazoo arch top from the 1940s I’m guessing much like this one here. A...
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Official video-Leavin’ Louisiana Blues
We shot this over at Sams Town Point with Jeremy Sexton. This was the first song released off of Leaving Time. I feel like this song encompasses much of what makes the album such a comfortable, cozy room of a record. Maybe my most honest and simple to date. Much of my recorded output has a…
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Tinyribs Live-Leaving Louisiana Blues
Leaving Louisiana blues is the song about having to leave someplace you love because the people you love want you to. Louisiana can be anywhere. The singer of the song is everyone that’s ever felt betrayed, unseen, ghosted, unwanted. In every leaving, there is the seed of returning, always. In...
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Happy Shitty Music Day
Now streaming on all platforms the second single off of the ground breaking album Leaving Time due out 4/25/25 Go like it, save it, dance to it, share it, talk to it and tell it you love it then send it to ya mama ya daddy ya brother sister greasy granny go run tell everyone you know about this…
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Leaving La Blues
Leaving Louisiana Blues There’ll come a time when you’ll understand that your enablers were actually your discouragers. They needed you to stay on their level so, to convince themselves they weren’t expected to try to improve. Success is never an option for them, only righteous indignation for...
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Mr. Ribs makes mountains out of molehills, hay outta horse’s mouths, something outta nothing. Behind the scenes, long form tangents of uncommon grace and courage. Always a new song, unreleased song, outtakes from legendary recordings, etc
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