The Bastard Sons of Dennis: BSoD + D² – Cruelty to Blues

Cruelty to Blues is a new album release from Wud Records! Ten Blue Öyster Cult cover songs recorded by The Bastard Sons of Dennis, with Dave Danielli on bass. So much to love!

We have known Dave for many years. He was the bass player in The Ug Brothers, and played a big part in the making of Flicker‘s 2002 album At Least 1000 Words.

Dave has loved the music of Blue Öyster Cult for even longer than we have known him. When he heard the Cosy Lube Turtle album by The Bastard Sons of Dennis, he simply had to reach for his bass.

Shortly afterwards, Dave got in touch. He sent us a couple of his basslines and we loved what he had done.

Over time, he made basslines for all ten songs. These were incorporated into the recordings we had already made. Each song was given a few tweaks, before being remixed and remastered, again. There is even a little bit of keyboard added to Astronomy, courtesy of Len Denier (another name for our keys man, Josh Reynes).

Now that everything is finally done, we are very pleased to let you know that the album has been released to Bandcamp. We shall be sending free download codes to everyone who already bought the Cosy Lube Turtle album.

Dave has sent us a couple of albums of his music and we shall be looking into the possibility of hosting them for him. More news on this to follow via our News service, Bandcamp Community, BlueSky and X (formerly Twitter).

In other news regarding The Bastard Sons of Dennis, their Cherry Smoke Empire album is currently on the slab in our control room for remixing and remastering. There is another EP in the works, and we are trying to locate the best live versions of the various songs The Bastard Sons of Dennis performed that we can find.

Cruelty to Blues is slated for worldwide distribution, although some of the details need to be hammered out with the distributors before they are willing to release it. We decided the release couldn’t wait any longer.

The tracks from Cruelty to Blues will start to slowly appear at SoundCloud. We prefer to leave a bit of time between each release at that platform, as that is how the platform seems to function best for us. These are not new uploads at SoundCloud, they were secret tracks waiting to be released.

If you would like to visit the new Cruelty to Blues page here at the Wud Records website, please click here.

To listen to Cruelty to Blues or to download it from Bandcamp, please click here instead.