Artist: Scott Biram
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #64 July-Aug 2006
Scott Biram – Graveyard Shift
Scott Biram is a really scary dude. Your seventh-grader will be all over that grossly dead dog on the cover, but the contents might give the kid nightmares. Life as Biram sings it is nothing but trouble: “The trouble with livin’ is you gotta get ‘er done.” That line is from “Goin’ Home”, a breathless [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #57 May-June 2005
Scott H. Biram – The Dirty Old One Man Band
At first listen, Scott H. Biram sounds like the kind of guy who makes blues music for white trash. Coming on like Mojo Nixon with an ass pocket full of R.L. Burnside-brand whiskey, he doesn’t pay homage to the Mississippi Delta so much as stomp through it in a stained wife-beater T-shirt. It’s pretty clear [...]
Town and Country - Shorter Artist Feature from Issue #51 May-June 2004
Scott Biram – A Crash Course in Perseverance
Transport bawdy country blues interpreter Scott Biram back to the early 17th century to meet John Donne and the metaphysical poet might have changed his tune. No man is an island, entire of itself? Watch. “I always had a picture in my head of a big wall of beat-up amps behind me and a lot [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #50 March-April 2004
Hank Williams III / Scott Biram – Great American Music Hall (San Francisco, CA)
Twenty minutes after his show had ended, Hank Williams III lingered at center stage and leaned down to talk to his fans, taking their gushing praise with a smile and signing whatever was thrust in front of him. If Hank III shares anything with his much-celebrated grandfather, it is the ability to bend the ear [...]
