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Nothing comes easy for our favorite hombres from Kansas. Mix up some bad women, bad jobs, bad autos, and bad luck; well that's more than most men could handle. Luckily, these fellas are good at channeling their aggression. Maybe that's why they're on the road so much. When the going gets tough...

After a bit of tinkering, these bluegrass outlaws have emerged from the garage soot-smeared, short of temper and ready for beer with their third CD. Steel yourself for the trademark souped up hillbilly barrage. Never Make it Home features Split Lip Rayfield's bluegrass underground sound, tick-tight playing and even a few sing-along anthems. The attitude remains but this disc also features a contemplative "been there, done that" perspective that's strangely (gasp) mature and disarming. The songwriting (and it is HUMMABLE, my friends) comes to the fore as never before. This time around, SLR tries to reason with you before they bust your head, but when the fists start flying, don't say you weren't warned. The perfect disc to listen to on the way to your bail hearing

"It's easy to hear the desperation of a guy bent over the fender of a '68 Ford pickup in the front yard of his farmhouse, tools scattered about, knuckles bloody and grease up to his elbows. Sweating, cussing, half-drunk, he's trying to get that damn truck running so he can get to work tomorrow. Split Lip gets the truck running and floors it, spraying gravel and scaring the bejesus out of the kids." Jerry Renshaw, Austin Chronicle

"Once you get past the raw and rugged surface, Split Lip’s music is informed by surprisingly nimble and deceptively complex arrangements, tasteful and inventive playing, well-formed harmony, and great storytelling." Nick Zaino, Boston Phoenix

"Living in the present while glorifying the past, SLR are going straight to hell for simultaneously messing with tradition and respecting it, and taking us along for the ride. Hang tight, and don’t look back." Hal Horowitz, Creative Loafing