Jonny Corndawg is a country singer, not a singer-songwriter. Born in Montana, raised in rural Virginia, Corndawg has been touring on his motorcycle since he dropped out of school in 2001. He's played shows in every U.S. state, Canada and eleven European countries, Australia, Argentina and India. But you won't find him on CMT. His music is more in the vein of that obscure '70s gay country that housewives would discover on a Bear Family reissue in twenty years. In addition to pursuing the lost art of the Real Deal, Corndawg is an airbrushing, leather-working, marathon-running, truck-driving American. Born and Bred. 

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Shovels and Rope tell the story of a hard time American town at the moment when the sun casts a long shadow from the gallows and illuminates the settling dust. A church bells sits scalded in a heap of brick and smoldering ash. A young man quietly counts his mothers tears through the arc of a hanging noose. New blades of grass begin to sprout on a fresh grave, and the sound of the rusty grinding gears of the passing train beg for changing times that never seem to come. Here, the hard fought battles between hope and desperation leave the heart weary town to buckle under its own sorrow. Still nothing short of a bullet, or a tight noose can sway the willful course of the some hearts. Unfortunately, in this town, there is no shortage of either. The outbound locomotive wails and pulls behind it a shadow of blue darkness, scattered with stars, over the town, as its ghosts wander the empty cars searching for reminders of joy.

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There are at least two artists named Robert Ellis:
1. Robert Ellis - an American folk singer
2. Robert Ellis (beta_red) - a video game music artist

1. Robert Ellis is an American folk singer-songwriter based in Houston, Texas, United States. In 2009, Robert Ellis released debut solo album The Great Rearranger. in addition to Ellis' solo career his plays in the indie bands The Lovely Sparrows, Robert Ellis and The Boys, Houston's I am Mesmer; drums for singer-songwriter Chase Hamblin and bass in blues Grandfather Child.

SOLO CAREER
In 2009, Robert Ellis  Texas-based singer and songwriter, Ellis released the his debut solo album, The Great Re-Arranger. The album touches upon a range of styles spanning pastoral folk, railroad blues and front porch country.  Ellis' rough hewn vocals and finely etched songs received positive reviews  and was named by The Houston Chronicle (#7 album in 2009) as one of "Top Houston Discs of 2009".

Robert Ellis Musical Influences': Doc Watson, Gillian Welch, and Richard Joiner.

Artist page: Robert Ellis
Album page: The Great Rearranger
Album page: Grandfather Child
Robert Ellis, (vocals, guitar, bass)

Discography
Album page: The Great Rearranger
Album page: Grandfather Child
Vinyl, Single, 45 RPM, 7"

Official Myspace Music page: http://www.myspace.com/robertellismusic

http://www.robertellismusic.com/

ROBERT ELLIS BAND CAREER
The Lovely Sparrows
Robert Ellis and The Boys
I am Mesmer 
Chase Hamblin (drums for singer-songwriter Chase Hamblin)
Grandfather Child (Robert Ellis plays the bass in blues Grandfather Child.

2. Robert Ellis (a.k.a. Robbie Ellis or beta_red) is a video game music writer and producer. He is known for making the soundtrack for Treasure Adventure Game.

http://betaredrecords.blogspot.com/


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The nineteen-nineties were not naturally inspiring years for young people; but we small bands of sisters and brothers in towns across the country made them so. Refugees from the suburbs, urban art assholes, and a few deep country hicks living together in makeshift hovels. I remember sitting upstairs in the living room at the Baldyga Funeral Home in Southie one summer evening.
Colin says to me, "I can't believe my favorite band ever is playing in our basement and we're just hanging out up here." It was Harvey Milk thundering below. You see, we were gorging on such a steady, decadent diet of rock in those days that even our skinny young-twenties bodies needed a rest now and then. The first time I watched a Bullroarer practice I thought "Ouch, that really
fucking hurts!" but stayed on mesmerized and totally confused as to what to do. The shows in those days followed a format of the bands starting out with a little bit of, "Is this it?" and the audience saying, "Uh . . . yeah, I think that's it" and Dave Moody going, "Yes! This is most definitely it!" and then we'd all said "Yes!" as one. Dave was the only guy that even had a bit of an idea that we might not always be this free.

Well this music Colin is playing now is older than all that. Yes, yes - this is his freshest shit yet, a culmination of many years hard labor with no pay, many years of laying it out on every kind of line. Well done good and faithful servant. But trust me, he was making this music in his mind long
before those now legendary late twentieth-century gigs in the squalid holes that passed for venues in Boston and the follow-up decade-long glorious ride of the Monster all over USA. Listen back to his high school talent show Bad Company cover.1 I kinda don't fault the snarky jocks you can hear standing next to the tape recorder for ridiculing him; but listen close and you might be
able to tell that, in his head, young Colin's vocals were soaring exactly like they do now on "Best Thing." And thank god he got over his fear of long songs! I realize how to some "leftit fantasy"2 -- a song I love with mother-crazy love -- may sound like a hoard of fools drowning in the bottom of a beer keg (that accurate, actually), but those feelings have been re-released on "Hold Tight," only minus the mangle and the loneliness now, so pure. "You Need Sleep" is the No Peddlers reunion I've pined for, but those guys were never this good - were they? It is a little bit amazing how many of the people playing on this record were with Colin lo those many years ago when Infinite Dream was just a spark in his eye. One can only wonder what the next fifteen years will bring.

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