Down the Dirt Road Blues (2005)
Beginning with a melody carried in the heart of a man chained in the hold of a Sixteenth-Century slave ship, Down the Dirt Road Blues tells the story of one song’s journey through American history and...
View ArticleThe Long Black Line (2006)
“Every New Orleanian knows about the long black line, the dirty bathtub ring left by receding floodwaters. Folk/blues troubadour Spencer Bohren threads that indelible image through a post-Katrina...
View ArticleLive at the Tube Temple (2008)
In October of 2007, Spencer Bohren christened the Tube Temple Concert Series in Solingen, Germany’s recording studio of the same name. A few nights later, another show of his fall tour of Germany was...
View ArticleThe Blues According to Hank Williams (2010)
Every song on this album was recorded or sung by Hank Williams more than fifty years ago. They pretty much cover the entire range of human emotion. Whether he was singing about love or loneliness,...
View ArticleBorn in a Biscayne remastered (2011)
Spencer Bohren’s first record, featuring Doctor John, was released in 1984 to rave reviews by blues programmers and fans all over America. An even mix of original and traditional music, it presented...
View ArticleBlackwater Music (2011)
Blackwater Music lines out what has been on Spencer Bohren’s mind lately: a good friend caught in the past, environmental irresponsibility in Louisiana and his home state of Wyoming, the passage of...
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Tempered Steel (2013)
Album Art – Tempered Steel Spencer Bohren says…“My relationship with the lapsteel guitar is unlike anything else in my life. It speaks both to me and through me, as if it had a mind of its own. When I...
View ArticleRory Danger and the Danger Dangers 2014
Can you keep a secret? Spencer Bohren has taken to performing under an alias. On certain occasions he is Spike Danger in New Orleans’ latest sensation, Rory Danger & the Danger Dangers.
View ArticleWrite Brothers 2014
The Write Brothers is the result of an idea for a good time that wouldn’t go away. Simple beginnings. I wanted to hear Robert Earl Keen’s “The Road Goes on Forever” and dug up the Highwaymen’s version...
View ArticleSeven Birds 2015
According to persistent legend a truck carrying a load of green parrots turned over on the Interstate highway near New Orleans sometime in the late twentieth century and spilled its colorful cargo into...
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