Hurtin Buckaroos | ja

Formed in San Francisco in 2004, the group consists of Timothy Sandberg (vocals/guitar/banjo), Ricky Pugh (vocals/guitar/mandolin) Andy Appleton (drums) and Thomas “Pinkus” Puhek (bass). Their 20-song, self-titled album, The Fucking Buckaroos, was released in 2007. In 2009 they partnered with Tijuana-based psychobilly band Los Helldandys to put out a split 7" vinyl-only record entitled Popular Romance, and in 2010 they were featured on Untitled 21: A Juvenile Tribute to the Swingin Utters. Their second full-length album, II, was released in 2012 in America, with an upcoming European release planned by Germany’s Out of My Mind Records. Having expanded the scope...

In 1993, producer Joe Ferry started an experimental rock group that he called The Hurtin' Buckaroos. The band recorded its now legendary debut cassette entitled "3 Stories" that first year and played a number of shows to appreciative and somewhat stunned audiences. In 1995, Shanachie A&R Director Charlie Dahan (now Ferry's business partner) invited the band to record tracks for an album he was compiling, "Skandalous: I Gotcha Covered Vol 2". The only catch was that the group had to record Ska, not avant garde rock. Since Joe Ferry was also the producer of the pivotal ska pioneers, The Skatalites,...