Video Premier: Scott H. Biram’s Full Tilt “Trainwrecker”
Make way you mamby pambys for the steel-jawed and fully-cocked musical madness coming at you like a face full of claws from the unhinged and wild-eyed “Dirty Ol’ One Man Band” known as Scott H. Biram. That grit in your eyes and those shotgun pellets you’re spitting out is how you know this is the real deal, hard-earned, dirty and awful truth sputtering with heartbreak and bad attitude like a rusty rig running off of fumes and dregs, but still packing enough mean-eyed moxie to barrel you over like a kick to the teeth.
Aww, this music’s too damn ugly for you? Well I think Luke Bryan just released a new song you whiny soul suckers, so get back suckling on that sweet corporate country teat while the rest of us bang our heads ’till our ears bleed. “Trainwrecker” is the type of nasty shit that Scott H. Biram has been beating out of old hollow-body guitars for some 17 years now, mixing Texas blues and country heartache with a potent dose of punk attitude. Scott once survived a head on collision with a 16-wheel semi tractor trailer and had his guts shoveled off the Texas asphalt and shoved back in him, so do you really want to swap scars and war stories with this ornery son-of-a-bitch?
“Trainwrecker” comes from Scott Biram’s most recent released called The Bad Testament via the devil-may-care renegade label Bloodshot Records bred on the dirty streets of Chicago. Biram’s earned such respect from the deep blues community and beyond in recent years that The Bad Testament charted #3 on the Billboard Blues Chart upon debut. But don’t think that’ll make Scott to go all soft on our asses. All you’ve got to do is get one good whiff of his new video for “Trainwrecker” to know Biram would rather go down going full speed and careening out-of-control with a blown head gasket spewing smoke than peeter out with a whimper.
So put your big boy pants on and give it an spin, or otherwise duck and cover because the shit is about to get real.
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April 19, 2017 @ 9:15 am
That was fun.
April 19, 2017 @ 10:37 am
Hell yeah, son!
April 19, 2017 @ 11:06 am
Top of my playlist every day..crippled and crazy best song fuckin ever..
April 19, 2017 @ 11:39 am
Haha It outperforms Luke Bryan hundred times….
And F-king nice car 1964 Ford Falcon Ranchero I think it is. And it also outperforms
Luke Bryan’s pick-up trucks a hundred times as well. 🙂
April 20, 2017 @ 11:18 pm
’65, but close enough 😉
April 21, 2017 @ 6:58 am
Thanks…I guess I stand corrected 🙂 The taillight and the grill differ from the -64. I knew it was from the mid 60’s. But wasn’t sure of the exact year. So I google “Ford Falcon 1965” and ended up on this page:
http://westcoastfalcons.com/tyler-clarkes-1965-ford-falcon-ranchero/ And got a bit fooled… 🙂
If you like vintage american cars take look at this video it’s from this 2011. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_yjTHC8MM8.
The Video description says 10 000 cars but the last 2 years it’s been about 20 000 cars. And believe it or not there usually are a few American participants each year. They ship their cars by boat across the Atlantic….
But I haven’t been there for a few years, it can get quite rowdy (too rowdy for me, some people really behave like idiots ) and the town about 4 miles away from the airfield gets completely jammed… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDOjefA1mYM
Something similar happens at least one time in almost every town in Sweden during the summer. And one reason is that we are ,for good and bad, probably the most Americanized people in Europe…
And begun already in the fifties after young people watch movies like James Dean’s movie “Rebel Without a Cause” or “Blackbord Djungel” with Glenn Ford and that really shows the power movies and music can have over young people. Since this youth culture, at least here in Sweden still exist after over 60 year…
April 19, 2017 @ 11:52 am
I think he got that muthafucka.
April 29, 2017 @ 8:16 pm
I see what u did there….
April 19, 2017 @ 12:38 pm
This makes me think of what would happen if Motorhead decided to do country blues. Good stuff.
Crazy story about Biram, even more so considering that he was back on stage within a month’s time. Guess for some guys like that, the endless tour keeps them alive.
April 19, 2017 @ 1:45 pm
Wow. This crap sucks. I’d just as soon listen to Luke Bryan.
April 19, 2017 @ 2:31 pm
Good lord, Honky. What DO you like?
April 19, 2017 @ 2:40 pm
Lots of stuff. Just not this.
April 19, 2017 @ 3:49 pm
(shaking my old head)
when’s the last time you got crazy?
April 19, 2017 @ 3:51 pm
I think Honky linked to a Lefty Frizzel song the other day and while I agree with that 100%, I’m curious of what else he likes as well. After that comment and the lame Americana article comments, I’m thinking he is a staunch traditionalist. And while traditional country music is great, there’s a lot of other subgenres of country and roots music to enjoy. Mr. Biram’s albums are similar for the most part, but there are a lot of enjoyable songs that span the spectrum of slower songs to stuff like this. Hopefully anybody that watches this video and doesn’t like it, doesn’t count Biram out without looking at other stuff. Going back to the Americana article though, I would still think that if you love traditional country, you could get behind a guy like Wayne Hancock so I’m still confused over all of that.
April 19, 2017 @ 3:59 pm
I linked that Lefty song, simply to make a smart-alec point to the person I was responding to. It wasn’t meant as anything more or less than that.
But yeah, I love Country music. I find most Americana corny.
April 19, 2017 @ 4:03 pm
I love Lefty and the whole stripped down shebang. Biram is the preacher’s punk son who knows the congregation changed. He wants to get in the ignored dirt, tear the fancy shit down, recognize the fuckin goat in all of us, and make the shoutingest honest music of our weird exhausted junkyard lives. Hope he gets wilder and lives to be some one-man band Methuselah, or Amos. Give him everything he can stand.
April 19, 2017 @ 6:43 pm
My comment here has nothing to do with Lefty. Forget about Lefty. I simply chose an old Country Classic at random, to make a point on the Sam Hunt article.
April 19, 2017 @ 2:17 pm
I love this entire album – it has a great flow to it.
April 19, 2017 @ 3:31 pm
Cool video and song. I get the one man band thing, but on this one it would have been amazing if Vinnie Paul would have broken through some sort of brick wall and start banging out a crazy beat.
April 19, 2017 @ 4:30 pm
Scott’s a musical genius ❤️
April 19, 2017 @ 6:01 pm
I can see (and hear) why it’s not to everyone’s taste, but I rather liked it. Needs an equally bad-ass band backing him up I reckon.
April 19, 2017 @ 6:23 pm
I dunno, he’d piss everyone off
it’s all writing: he’s looking for connection, right now it’s through attitude, vibe, and sudden rightnesses in his lines, like the effects of shock therapy
throw money at hm, like an old slot machine he’ll give it up
April 19, 2017 @ 6:23 pm
Now that’s some good shit boys and girls. Nothing like some gritty country blues to soothe the soul. You can just feel the grit in his voice like the dust blowing up behind the tractor as I’m out working in the fields. Love it!
April 20, 2017 @ 2:30 am
Must admit, its loud and noisy, and whilst its got a pick up truck and wide open roads etc, still not a country song in the slightest, its rock music.
I like Country when it gets rocky or bluesy, but to me this ain’t country music its just noisy rock, in fact more in line with Johnny Rotten than Johnny Cash!
April 20, 2017 @ 4:00 am
With all the ranting & raving this website does about “bro country” et al, to tout this crap as “country” renders all those complaints absolutely worthless, irrelevant, and moot and the site just completely lost its credibility with me. There is nothing country about this song, sorry.
April 20, 2017 @ 5:37 am
This song isn’t country. I don’t think Trigger referred to this song as a country song. Most of what Biram does is more blues driven but he does have songs that are as country and heartfelt as anything you’ll ever hear.
April 20, 2017 @ 5:51 am
If you click on the About link above, you’ll see this sentence in the first paragraph:
Saving Country Music primarily focuses on country, but also covers roots, rockabilly, bluegrass, blues, and folk music. .
And this has been the case for at least as long as I’ve been reading this site (2010).
April 20, 2017 @ 7:05 am
No, I don’t get him at all. Calling it blues-country doesn’t help either, I just don’t care for it, just like I don’t care for Luke Bryan or Florida Georgia Line or Thomas Rhett, et al. It’s just not my taste, that’s all.
April 20, 2017 @ 8:42 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iLGmm9-0HQ
April 20, 2017 @ 8:49 am
Well that’s a HELL of a lot more “country” than the video in question. More “Americana” too, with his rough-edged style. Not bad.
April 20, 2017 @ 6:50 am
Awww, go listen to the newest Chase Rice single, obviously you don’t get SHB.
April 20, 2017 @ 7:32 am
This is punk. And that’s cool, I’m all about punk. But this isn’t anymore country than Yelawolf. It’s got country sensibilities, but it’s straight up punk. And good. It’s really, really good.
April 20, 2017 @ 9:05 am
Not sure anyone is calling this country, just like Yelawolf. Saving Country Music has been covering Scott Biram, the deep blues scene, Bloodshot Records, et al for years.
April 21, 2017 @ 6:49 am
First time I ever heard Scott & Yela mentioned together. That would make one hell of a show.
April 20, 2017 @ 7:58 am
Not for everyone, but I sure like it.
April 20, 2017 @ 10:40 am
My testosterone levels just went up 6 more points after listening to that. And they are already off the charts! Arrrrrggghhhh!!!!!!!!!! Yeahhhhhh!!!! I believe I could whip about anyone in this bar!!!!
April 20, 2017 @ 3:02 pm
Totally digging it!! I just posted on Facebook:
Oh yes!! Totally digging this cat……to say he’s “unpolished” and “low-fi” would be an understatement…..exactly what the world needs right now! This track reminded me of the Headstones, and/or a bit of Junkhouse. Been listening to his album on Spotify – the rest is not quite as frantic, but really delivers on the groove/vibe meter. I’m buying trax this weekend…….
April 20, 2017 @ 5:09 pm
Scott H Biram rulez, not necessarily because of this, though this was fun. My first song I heard of his was truck driver, and that blew me away. He’s got a ton of great songs including many on the new album.
April 21, 2017 @ 2:33 am
Mosh pit
April 21, 2017 @ 6:47 am
Rancheros suck! Buy an El Camino.
August 22, 2017 @ 6:18 am
Scott is a musical master mind of wicked twisted metal and bone crushing guitar rips ~ By far my favorite musician on the planet. I wish he’d rip it up in MN sometime!!!!
May 25, 2022 @ 7:03 am
Does anyone know the guitar he is playing in Falkenberg 7/6 2015? Its the same song.