It features the music of Jim White, Johnny Dowd, The Handsome Family, David Eugene Edwards of 16 Horsepower, Rev. Gary Howlington, The Singing Hall Sisters, David Johansen, Melissa Swingle and Lee Sexton.
Rennie's lyrics have a strong storytelling component, drawing on themes from Gothic fiction, as well as American folk music, and often involving macabre subjects as murders, suicides and ghosts.
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The group shared bills with an assortment of its respected Texas contemporaries and touring acts such as Magnolia Electric Co., Cowboy Junkies, Chris Whitley, Willie Nelson, and The Handsome Family.
The club, led by Jerry Hammack (songwriter, producer, engineer, bass, keys, drums, guitars, vocals) includes a revolving door of members ranging from the top of the rock world - Lenny Kravitz alumni Zoro on drums, Vanessa Paradis and Yanni alumni Osama Afifi on bass, The Handsome Family, Freakwater and Stan Ridgway alumni Steven Dorocke on guitar as well as Swallow and Spike alumni, Rod Moody on guitar and Radio National's Aaron Taylor, also on guitar.