A Nickel and a Nail and Ace of Spades: 180gm Vinyl LP Skinny Puppy I like the idea that

I like the idea that this record has taken you on a voyage but it begins and ends in Atlanta

where sweeping orchestral arrangements rise and fall with the tide

– Volume 2’

it is the first set of songs that the quintet has put to tape in its hometown of Austin in more than a decade

Jonsson and P

A Nickel and a Nail and Ace of Spades: 180gm Vinyl LP Skinny Puppy I like the idea thatSometimes great things come in humble packages. The ramshackle cover art for this 1972 album makes it look like a bootleg, and the rampant misspellings and inconsistencies in the album and song titles make it clear that whoever was in charge of proofreading at the Back Beat label must have taken the day off when the art was circulated. But no matterseldom has the secular met the sacred with as much emotional force as on O. V. Wrights A Nickel and a