The Gourds latest release, Blood Of A Ram, released on Eleven Thirty Records, received a 3 star review in the latest issue of Blender.
See Below for entire review.

Review
The Gourds
Blood of the Ram
(Eleven Thirty)
Release Date: 10/19/2004

Noodly Austin five-piece returns with apocalyptic musings and odes to fried pork
Reviewed by Josh Eells

Sharp-eared downloaders know the Gourds for their bluegrass sendup of Snoop Dogg’s “Gin and Juice,” a P2P favorite that beat Bubba Sparxxx to hick-hop by two full years. Their seventh full-length is just as playful, full of spry bayou fiddling, jammy mandolins and backwoods wordplay, and though they could stand to cut back on the poop jokes, when it works, it’s deadpan hillbilly humor nonpareil (“Married my cousin up in Arkansas/Married two more when I got to Utah”). The Gourds are strange even when they’re serious: “Escalade” condemns gas-guzzling SUVs with buttery falsetto soul, while the title track constructs a gothic self-mythology about the end of days and being “washed in the blood of the ram.” Like Phish, only deep-fried.

DOWNLOAD THESE: “Lower 48,” “Escalade”