The Mirrors- A Green Dream

Recorded when Greg Ashley (singer and now Gris Gris main man) was still using a fake ID to get the latest and greatest mind-twisting gonzo to come through Texas. For fans of Pink Floyd (Syd Barret-era) and the Electric Prunes.

The Spider Bags
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Track listing
  1. Bad Complexion
  2. Waking Up Drunk
  3. Blood For You
  4. It's You
  5. Alphabet City Blues
  6. So Long A Rope
  7. Summer's Waltz
  8. The Bottle
  9. Bleed For You
  10. I am Sorry I
  11. Wide Open
  12. Darkness In My Heart
  13. Devil When I Go
  14. My Oh My

A Celebration of Hunger CD/LP

Released May 2007

Please welcome The Spider Bags: Hailing from North Carolina, out of nowhere but with the sound of a vintage anti-establishment America, fueled by whiskey and the treads of a long, harshly departed woman. The Spider Bags' A Celebration of Hunger was recorded in a whirlwind, with the six-piece band huddling around a microphone and preaching the country / punk / garage gospel with Shane MacGowan toothlessly smiling, listening to the songs of drink and debauchery.

Leader Dan McGee is the new great American songwriter-on-the-dole, whose multi-purposed voice sings of two things: girls and women, and does so with some of the most impressive lyrics to come out of an American since Nick Cave no…hmmm…Shane…no, he is from Ireland. Damn. Well, in the tradition of all those greats who steal from the Americana ethos and make careers out of doing so. We bring to you The Spider Bags, the first great European-stealing Americana band from America. Let freedom reign.

"Spider Bags takes garage rock, puts it through the North Carolina roots music machine and comes out on the other side with songs that could easily be local anthems." --The Daily Tar Heel, NC

"Slow, galloping, stoned-and-soured country, they sing lines like "There ain't no curfew on hard livin' in this poorly painted town" above a slurred Southern sweat." -- Indy Week