The Dock Ellis Band sounds like a honky tonk jukebox...back when dimes were actually made of silver.

However, there are two sides to this coin. Half of the material is true, classic country from tear jerking ballads to wistful waltzes, drifting cowboy songs to raucous, stomping outlaw tunes.Then there's the underside of the coin. It's a dark,

The Dock Ellis Band sounds like a honky tonk jukebox...back when dimes were actually made of silver.

However, there are two sides to this coin. Half of the material is true, classic country from tear jerking ballads to wistful waltzes, drifting cowboy songs to raucous, stomping outlaw tunes.Then there's the underside of the coin. It's a dark, humorous side that some have even described as, "subversive".

Humor has always been an important element in country music even before Jimmie Rodgers recorded "Pistol Packin' Papa" in 1930 with the lyrics, "Now girls, I'm just a good guy, and I'm going to have my fun, and if you don't wanna smell my smoke, don't monkey with my gun!" Well The DEB has songs about guns; not to mention songs about bass players born in dumpsters, gamblers with missing thumbs, drunk pregnant women and a man so desperate for affection, he's pleading to be kidnapped and molested.

That and more is in store for you if you download The Dock Ellis Band's first full-length studio album, "Bad Songs and Waltzes".

Recorded at, Native Sound, Saint Louis, Missouri, March 2013 Engineered by: David Beeman Produced by: David Beeman and The Dock Ellis Band Mastered by: Blue Jade Audio Mastering, Saint Louis, Missouri Album Art by: Jeff Robtoy w/ technical assistance from Mike Hansen

The Dock Ellis Band are:

Jesse Irwin: electric guitar, vocal Justin Brown: electric and acoustic guitar, vocal Tim Sullivan: piano, tack piano and Wurlitzer Adam Dick: Precision Bass Guitar Ryan Adams: drums David Anderson: (special guest) pedal steel guitar