NEVERLAND RANCH DAVIDIANS SHARE DETAILS OF SECOND ALBUM, SHOUT IT ON THE MOUNTAIN

NEVERLAND RANCH DAVIDIANS SHARE DETAILS OF SECOND ALBUM, SHOUT IT ON THE MOUNTAIN, OUT FEBRUARY 7 VIA HEAVY MEDICATION RECORDS

FIRST SINGLE “CACTUS COOLER MAN” IS GOING TO RADIO NOW
WITH AN ALBUM RELEASE SHOW SET FOR FEBRUARY 15
AT THE REDWOOD IN LOS ANGELES

“Fronted by Tex Mosley, this defiant two-guitar power trio boasts a sound that’s as unlikely a hybrid as their once heard, never forgotten name” — CLASSIC ROCK MAGAZINE

Shout It on the Mountain will be available on vinyl, CD, and download

L to R: Max Hagen, Tex Mosley, Will Bentley; Photo by Josh Withers

Neverland Ranch Davidians, a Los Angeles rock trio renowned for their incendiary live shows, have announced details of their second album. Shout It on the Mountain will be released on LP, CD and download via Heavy Medication Records on February 7. To coincide, the band will play an album release concert at The Redwood in Los Angeles on February 15.Pre-order Shout It on the Mountain at Bandcamp. The album’s first single, “Cactus Cooler Man,” is now available on all digital platforms.

The Davidians’ lineup features vocalist/guitarist Tex Mosley (vocals, guitar), Will Bentley (guitar, backing vocals), and Max Hagen (drums, backing vocals). While the band does not feature bass guitar in its live shows, Greg “Smog” Boaz (Mavis Staples, Dave Alvin and the Guilty Men, Tex & the Horseheads) plays bass on the new album.

A native of Philadelphia, Tex Mosley relocated to Los Angeles in the early 1980s and has played in a succession of punk-leaning bands: Bad Actor, featuring Michael “Spider” Sanders of Afro-punk legends Pure Hell; Whores of Babylon with Circle Jerks singer Keith Morris; The Slaves with Richard Elerick (AKA punk vocalist “Rik L Rik”); The Hangmen, a group which recorded an unreleased album for Geffen with Mosley; The Duane Peters Gunfight, a Tex-Mex infused punk group featuring skateboarding legend Duane Peters; and the power pop-leaning Neighborhood Bullys. It was with the latter band that Mosley backed up Detroit legend Suzi Quatro for her 2011 album, In the Spotlight.

Neverland Ranch Davidians formed in Hollywood in 2019. Mosley, Bentley and Hagen honed their sound performing at a string of southern California live shows before recording their self-titled debut album in 2022. Released in January 2023, Ian Fortnam at Classic Rock Magazine hailed Neverland Ranch Davidians as a “Future Classic” and awarded the album “9 out of 10.” Iggy Pop added a pair of the album’s tracks to the playlist of his BBC Radio 6 show.

For Shout It on the Mountain, the band has added a more pronounced rhythm & blues vibe to its sonic stew. “For me, R&B and punk rock are just two colors on the rock ‘n’ roll palette,” said Mosley. “They’re what I’ve listened to all my life. Little Richard was the punk rocker of his day. The New York Dolls were labeled as glam, but if you listen closely, they were trying to be a more rock ‘n’ roll version of the Shangri-La’s. The Davidians are all the things I love thrown into one pot, from Stax soul to cowpunk to NYC Lower East Side trash.”Shout it on the Mountain was recorded earlier this year in Los Angeles except for “Happy,” which dates to the sessions for the first album. The new album features three cover songs: Eddie Floyd’s ‘Big Bird” (originally issued on Stax Records in 1968 and written by Floyd and Booker T. Jones), Half Pint & the Fifths’ “Orphan Boy” (an obscure Chicago garage rocker issued in 1966 which later appeared in the popular Back from the Grave series), and Skip James’ “Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues” (originally issued on Paramount Records in 1931). The latter track carries the subtitle “Dirty” for this new release and features additional lyrics by the band. All the original songs are band compositions with most of the lyrics written by Mosley, with additional help from Bentley.

The album was produced by Will Bentley and Bjorn Winberg. Shout It on the Mountain will be released by Heavy Medication Records, a label run by native Chicagoan Derrick Ogrodny from his longtime homebase in Warsaw, Poland.

NEVERLAND RANCH DAVIDIANS — Shout It on the Mountain (Heavy Medication Records; LP: HM027, CD: HM027CD)

All songs by Neverland Ranch Davidians except otherwise noted.

YOUTUBE SHARE: “Cactus Cooler Man”
from Shout It on the Mountain