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Greg Wilburn Names ‘Satan Is Watching’ One of the 5 Albums That Changed His Life

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Hey, Lonesome Wyatt, thank you for restoring hope in me. Thank you for showing me that music could still be as innovative, creative, and show just as much raw emotion as it ever has to me.

Posted in TPB Press

Ringmaster’s Realm’s Take on ‘Heartsick’

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Heartsick is a layered journey into the abyss of darkness, depression and sadness, and may be one of the best CDs to come out in some time!

Posted in LW Press

‘Heartsick’ Named Best Album of 2011 by Sound in the Signals

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This album could easily be the soundtrack to Nightmare Before Christmas or Sleepy Hollow.

Posted in LW Press

Heartsick Review by American Roots UK

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…the haunting instrumentation ensures this is never an album to really lift the spirits…

Posted in LW Press

Those Poor Bastards: Top 15 Milwaukee Show of 2011

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Guitarist and frontman Lonesome Wyatt—with his long black hair, top hat, and wide, laser-shooting eyes—projected a sort of rockabilly Peter Steele bravado that could be aptly described as “hilariously evil.”

Posted in TPB Press

Shooter Jenning’s Top 11 Albums of 2011: ‘Heartsick’

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The sound of this record is amazing, haunting and just plain intimidating.

Posted in LW Press

Watch the Official Video for “Feast of Fear”!


Hello pal,

You are hereby invited to fill your eyeballs with the new Lonesome Wyatt and the Holy Spooks’ moving picture extravaganza “Feast of Fear.”

I hope you will find it somewhat enjoyable. Thank you.

Your miserable friend,
Lonesome Wyatt

Posted in New Releases

Vinyl Cave Dives Deep With ‘Heartsick’

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…suitable for the darkest hours before dawn: loneliness and loss, fear and insanity, death or something worse.

Posted in LW Press

Mad Mackerel Reviews ‘Heartsick’

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By turns melancholic, mournful and (of course) spooky, Lonesome Wyatt & The Holy Spooks are clearly masters of their macabre craft.

Posted in LW Press

CC2K Thinks ‘Heartsick’ Is A “Real Trip”

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It’s one of the finest explorations of sadness that I’ve ever heard.

Posted in LW Press