Episode 172 was recorded late last night here in Broomall, PA, a few hours after our gig in Rockville, MD. This is the second time we've done a show at the DevMo household (first time was Episode 138 last September). Fiddler Heide Riggs joins us to recap the tour so far,...
2022-05-30 20:02:22 +0000 UTC View Post
A quick show as we're getting ready to hit the road for our East Coast tour. As always, we kill some songs and continue our new feature of rescuing underrated songs & albums.
Some of you have expressed frustration with the songs we've chosen to kill, but loyal listeners will note that we OFTEN disagree with each other about what consti...
2022-05-24 00:33:33 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we have some more tour date news, and we kill some songs submitted by SlapperCast listeners in addition to our own selections. ALSO a new feature: we "rescue" three albums from relative obscurity.
2022-05-16 18:10:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Recorded while driving home from our first ever gig at Home Sweet Farm Biergarten in Brenham. It was a GREAT night and we can't wait to come back.
Greg Fugate posted a few videos from the show on our official Facebook group, by the way. Thanks Greg! ...
2022-05-09 18:52:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's an unedited, early release of SlapperCast Episode 168, recorded this morning. This week, as recently promised, we have a long discussion about band names, good and bad, spinning off a bunch of tangents along the way.
MP3 attached below.
Here's a completely unedited vancast we recorded right as we hit the road for Taylor this past Friday to play at Black Sparrow Music Parlor. Uncommonly great venue, by the way, and we highly recommend you check it out... we will be back there soon! Thanks again to Greg Fugate for bringing it to our attention.
In this episode we talk ...
2022-04-24 19:53:17 +0000 UTC View Post
At long last, this week we're joined by our old friend the Mighty Orq, brilliant guitar player, songwriter, and tremendously talented vocalist who has been all over the Houston music scene for decades. Blaggards has shared the stage with Orq and his band many times in the past and it is an absolutely thrill to finally have him on the show.
Here's a really fun conversation we recorded yesterday with our friend, the massively talented and industrious Luba Dvorak, musician, songwriter, sound engineer, and man about town. Luba has an amazing story that starts in Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia and winds through Vancouver and New York City before landing here in Houston.
MP3 att...
Here is the second segment of SlapperCast 164, shot in the van as we drove to our gig at 1886 Humble Backyard last night. We missed our exit while we shot this, by the way… ALL FOR YOU!
ECH joins us to kill another song, and we talk about our upcoming six-night engagement in Las Vegas, which was just booked this week.
In the ...
2022-04-02 22:28:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the full, unedited preview (video and mp3) of a GREAT conversation we had today with Houston's hardest working bass player Mark Riddell. As you may have heard, Mark recently completed his first solo album Corporeal Pilot. Patrick got his hands on an advance copy of the CD and has been raving about it, as you will hear during the...
2022-04-01 02:58:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the uncut video (and MP3) of SlapperCast Episode 163, recorded in the van while we were driving to our gig at O'Bannon's Taphouse in College Station last Friday, March 25.
This week start off by "killing" a few songs we're sick of hearing, one being by a band that has since broken up… which leads us to speculate what might ...
2022-03-28 23:37:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Hot off the presses, here is Episode 162 of SlapperCast, recorded mere moments ago after we all got home from an extremely sunny and windy show at Bumpy Pickle in Houston. This week, we slay a few more songs and recap our Paddy's Week shows, and look forward to a very busy month of April and an East Coast tour in May.
As usual, the v...
2022-03-21 02:27:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a quick episode we recorded in the van on Saturday right shortly after leaving our gig in Lewisville, released EARLY and uncut… just for y'all. Completed episode with video will be out tonight at midnight.
Special guest: fiddler Heide Riggs, who will also be joining us for St. Patrick's Eve at Poor David's in Dallas this Wednesday...
2022-03-15 00:12:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is a high quality (320 kbps) MP3 of our new single, "Come Out Ye Black & Tans".
This will be released on all major streaming services on Sunday, March 13. But you, dear patrons, get to hear it first... right here, right now.
Guitars & lead vocals: Patrick Devlin
Bass & backing vocals: Chad Richard Smalley
D...
Here's the latest draft of the cover artwork for our upcoming digital single "Come Out Ye Black & Tans", which we're aiming to release around the week of Paddy's Day, March 17.
Chad put this together in Photoshop today, with collaborative feedback from Patrick, aiming to make it look like a weathered LP sleeve. The photo is one o...
2022-02-03 02:02:16 +0000 UTC View Post
This week on SlapperCast we're thrilled to introduce you to our friend Liam Leach, fledgling luthier (maker of stringed instruments) and the creator of the newest guitar and bass you've seen us playing recently. In fact, Chad has been using Liam's "Bravacado" bass exclusively since Liam gave it to him back in early October, and used it during
Here is a behind-the-scenes video of our recording session for "Come Out Ye Black and Tans" (Dominic Behan) at Edgewater Studios last Thursday, January 13, 2022, with recording and mixing engineer John Shelton.
The session ran from roughly 10 AM to 3 PM with no lunch break, so here you have five solid hours of work condensed into 21 minute...
2022-01-17 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
From tomorrow's Episode 153, the full segment with Tim "Elvirus" Aballo of the Outsiders PBR, unexpurgated for Patreon supporters. Most of the second half of this will be trimmed from the completed episode.
Also, as a test, if you're logged into Patreon you should be able to access the episode here (let me know if this works):
2022-01-11 02:15:10 +0000 UTC
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Here is Episode 152 of SlapperCast, "The Naughty List", released about 10 hours early just for y'all.
In this episode, we share a few stories about places we've played that, shall we say, did not make the best decisions with regards to runni...
2022-01-03 20:42:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Here are some previously unseen photos taken by Jason Yu for the cover of our single Everyday is Christmas (Since You're Gone), along with a few iterations of the artwork by Chad that led up to the final version, included here as well.
The...
2021-12-26 03:39:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is an early release of SlapperCast Episode 151, not publicly available until Tuesday, December 28.
In this brisk episode, Paddy & Chad discuss last-minute Christmas shopping, New Year's resolutions, and the direct signal gear we've been using for our instruments.
2021-12-24 22:03:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is our entire performance from Sunday's ROCK THE SHELTER benefit show at the Continental Club Houston, featuring Jeff Duncan on fiddle and Luba Dvorak running sound.
MP3 download:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/r2hlvo09uk...
Patrick and Chad tell the TRUE story behind two of the more enigmatic numbers on BLAGMATIC: "Wagon Wheel" and "Sweet 16".
ALSO: some background info on how "PLFM" was written.
Show notes
Here is an unedited segment of SlapperCast 148, recorded last night in the van shortly after leaving the Celtic Ray Public House in Punta Gorda, Florida.
The full episode, including a new interview with Mark & Flint from Catch My Carbon, will be released at midnight CST tonight on YouTube and wherever you find podcasts.
2021-12-06 21:48:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is an early release of SlapperCast Episode 146, recorded in the van shortly after leaving our Thursday night gig in Beaumont.
The video edition will be published on our SlapperCast YouTube channel on Tuesday morning, 12 AM.
Subscribe to SlapperCast on YouTube here:
2021-11-20 23:51:33 +0000 UTC
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Paddy and Chad unbox and listen to the vinyl test pressing of BLAGMATIC, back on July 23, 2021. Hearing this pressing for the first time was quite literally a jaw-dropping moment for us.
As you can see, there's no artwork on a test pressing… which you hear us making jokes about immediately upon seeing it.
We got the album cov...
2021-11-11 06:05:58 +0000 UTC View Post
We were thrilled to read this review of our new album today… very detailed rundown of the album written by a true fan of the genre. Can’t thank those guys enough.
We’re on our way down to our gig at Haak Winery as I type this… BEAUTIFUL weather today. Hope you all are doing well.
2021-10-17 18:27:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Photographer Tiffany Rea sent us these brilliant photos tonight, all taken last month at ScotFest in Broken Arrow, OK, and we wanted to share these with you first.
Again, it has to be said what an amazing job fiddler Heidi Riggs did at these shows… we WILL be playing with her again, so stay tuned.
You can find Tiffany Rea on ...
2021-10-13 04:30:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Last Friday, September 3rd, we opened for 38 Special at the Arena Theatre, a Houston venue that's been around since 1965, with an endless list of legendary performers who have graced its circular, rotating stage. Performing here was an amazing experience for us that we'll talk about a bit in this week's episode of SlapperCast.
The staff at...
2021-09-06 03:55:28 +0000 UTC View Post
For all our audiophiles, here is the new album in high-res FLAC, a lossless audio format converted directly from the 96 kHz/24 bit master. This is higher quality than CDs, which are 44kHz/16 bit.
Currently, this is included with all BLAGMATIC viny...
2021-09-02 04:08:51 +0000 UTC View Post