Hometown: Kansas City, MO US

Many years ago, there was a cave guy and a cave girl living happily ever after as often as they could, what with Woolly Mammoths and the like trying to kill them all the time. Then, once upon that time, another cave couple found a cave nearby. One evening, around a Saturday night neighborhood campfire, these cave folks accidentally invented music. They may have even been drinking some old rotting fruit juices that had heretofore unknown magical properties. One thing led to some other things, things got mixed up and the first heartbreaks of Planet Earth ensued.

The problems haven't changed, it's just the music that has gotten different (and there are usually fewer animal bones involved in its making) and the rotting fruit juices have given way to fermented grains. Rex Hobart & the Misery Boys are the current soundtrack to the age old conundrum -- they provide a connection to the prehistoric and help all of us understand that, while we can put people in space, splice the atom, make Jessica and Ashlee Simpson sing on key, and make Reality TV seem clever, we are not a damn sight closer to figuring out the spastic whims of our hearts.

Clearly the most enigmatic of our bands. Until he was with Bloodshot, Rex led one of the most popular hardcore/math rock bands in the KC area. You would never know it from his serious honky tonk chops. Still, you gotta give Rex his props for being punk as fuck. He used to drive a car with crushed mirrors on the hood and a functioning gas tank in the front seat. The rest of the band are real sharp dressers and can play the shit out of their instruments. Their songs are right out of the Buck songbook, and will break your heart... if you have one. They're decidedly reverent, but definitely not an aping museum piece, either. You have not heard straight up honky tonk done like this in decades. We're serious.

"Wicked Savior" on Down to the Promised Land

"Forever to Burn" Rex solo on the Pine Valley Cosmonauts' The Executioner's Last Songs: Volumes 2&3

"It's Not Easy Being Green" on The Bottle Let Me Down

"Every Rose Has Its Thorn," and "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" on Making Singles, Drinking Doubles

"How Long (Have You Been Gone)?" on For a Decade of Sin: 11 Years of Bloodshot Records

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