Earlier this year, Lee Miles and his band, The Illegitimate Sons did a low profile EP release titled, A Farewell to Sister Evelyn. This disc was recently reviewed by Whatzup magazines own, D.M. Jones. The entire article can be read here.

Within the dusty boot tracks, alternately funereal and hoedown tempos and clucking country-style electric guitars that populate the latest from Lee Miles and the Illegitimate Sons, A Farewell to Sister Evelyn, you'll find sorrowful and sordid tales alike.

You'll find murder, fever, wretches thirsting for salvation and victims who never sought it. Best of all, you'll find layers and levels of meaning tacked to the antique, esoteric lyrics. Rarely are lyrics printed on a page as moving or enlightening as they are when sung, but in this case having them in view adds to the experience.

"All the boys in skinny clothes cut wide open on the evening news," Miles sings over a single strummed acoustic guitar. "One says he's stepping on the throat of the man who would harm you. The other says all leaders must die, it don't matter the color of his lies if he's banking on our hopes and our money, if our children be killed in the street." Read More...