Wife Swapping Party

Our new video is up on YouTube if you didn't already know. Looks like cousin Snow Hogg may be joining the band. Last night me and Kash joined him in Newton at Tommy Doyles and we did a few songs at their open mic. Host Tim Ko told us he has been doing this over 6 years and he ran a great one. There was a harpist and I wish I had her name to giver her kudos. 

If you have never been to The Island it's a small bar with more than ample parking and a huge covered area outside with tables situated right on the waterfront. As the summer of 2018 comes to an end what a great place to perform outdoors. WE play on Friday the 14th with 1 man band Average Joel opening the night. NO COVER on Friday.

Saturday it is REZFEST 2018

REZFEST EVENT INFORMATION

Local bands! Artists! Lawn Games! Food truck! Outside and inside bar! Beautiful scenery! Rhody summer vibes! 😎 

Age 21+. $5 cover.

The bar is CASH ONLY! ABSOLUTELY NO BYOB.

Ample parking. Overflow parking will be either the neighboring boat ramp lot or the NEAR side of the street.

Bring a chair or blanket! Tip your bartenders and support our local artists! 

This is the 2nd Annual RezFest at The Island, with a great lineup of local bands for you all to enjoy, including: 

Joe Tudino - 1:00 pm 
Yohafu - 1:45 pm 
Bobby Dyckman (of Wolf Harbor) - 2:30 pm 
Cavalier - 3:15 pm 
Part-Time Poets - 4:10 pm 
Adri - 5:05 pm 
Wax On - 5:50 pm 
Delko - 6:45 pm 
Jesse & the Hogg Brothers - 7:40 pm 
People Eating Plastic - 8:35 pm 
---- 9:30 - 10:00 pm ----- 
Open Mic 

Local artist showcase TBD! 

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The song was kind of strange in how we wrote it. Got flight canceled for some reason while we was in St Louis and it was around the time Bloody & The Hollowbodys were playing their song Medrock Twist and we were digging it and that live CD so hearing that song and being in St Louis.... Oh well we wrote The Hogg Tail Twist and we love that we have a song that salutes St Louis, MO! Much maligned in the media but the people there are nice folks and the city has a unique charm. So sitting in a dive 1 star hotel we wrote the song and it came to life in the studio with fiddle by Jolene and Slide Guitar from The Great JoeBob Hogg really highlight the melody and lyrics. SooWee! Follow us on our other social media if you do that! 

The Patch - las Vegas

Jesse and the Hogg Brothers @ Double Down Saloon Las Vegas NV 

March 18th Boston band returns to Nevada to rock the Double Down with special guest, bassist Joe Black 

By Judy Dessanti, Patch Poster | Mar 18, 2018 7:34 pm ET

At 4640 Paradise Road in Vegas, the Double Down Saloon, the CowPunk will fly! https://www.facebook.com/event... 

CowPunk 2018 with three terrific acts @ The Double Down! At 10 pm it's Today's Paramount from Denver, Colorado, Boston's own Jesse and the Hogg Brothers at 11 pm and from Portland Oregon at 2 am the group Stolen Rose. 

The Hogg Brothers feature JoeJoe on drums, Rex on bass, Stevie on guitar, Kash on guitar and vocals, JoeBob on slide and perform songs from their albums Rusty Loved Christmas, White Trash Meth Lab and Working for Yankee Money. Onstage they take Dr. Hook's Medicine Show (remember "On the Cover of the Rolling Stone?" ) to a different, even more hilarious dimension with songs like "Biker Ann" (she drinks more than a man...and comes to a tragic end!,) "Love Buckets," "Onion Ring," and their newest CD single "Hogg Tail Twist." 

Jesse Braintree is the master of ceremonies and can he ever talk (find him on YouTube,) but the boys...and sometimes the gals - in the Hogg Bros. ignore him and just keep playing anyway. It makes for an evening of fun...and very different...entertainment. "Hogg Tail Twist" goes back to the days of Chubby Checker, Dee See Sharp and Joey & The Starliners (who once had Jimi Hendrix grace their band.) Yes, the dance crazes of the 60s return "Stick Your Leg Out and Give it a Jiggle / Drop it to the Floor and Give your Tail a Wiggle" - it's the Hogg Tail Twist 

The band has an assortment of parodies, one of this writer's favorites being "Green Haze" which combines Hendrix's "Purple Haze" with the theme from the Green Acres TV show. It's amazing. At the Vegas show Joe Black of the band Ball and Chain as well as Charlie Farren (Farren being a former lead singer of Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry's Project) is going to jump onstage for the "Purple Haze" parody. Should be a blast. Mr. Black relocated from Boston to Vegas in 2017 and has a new CD out, Joe Black's Blackenstein. Wonder if they'll be invading the Double Down Saloon any time soon?

Check out the gig, it's always a fun affair and the band gets extra amped up for Vegas we hear! 

As you might expect it takes a lot of effort on our part to pull off a show in Sin City. This years crew is pictured above L-R Kenny Hogg- Bass Uke & Vocals, Jesse Braintree - Vocals and Bannana, Kitty Hogg - Vocals and Dancin, Kash Hogg - Guitar & Vocals, Lisa Mari Hogg - Vocals, Stevie Joe Hogg- Guitar, and Joe Joe Hogg on Roland Drum Kit. 

Kenny arrived 1st on Sunday the 18th from Dallas into Las Vegas  around 10 AM, and then Jesse arrived around 4 PM so Kenny was already hanging on the strip. They checked into our hotels and we planning on getting Kash around 7-8 PM and realized Guitar Center was closed and we needed to rent a guitar for Stevie who was still en-route with Lisa Mari from Ohio. So they pick up Kash and he has the drum kit bass and his guitar. Kenny uses some program he has on his phone and he locates a guy selling a guitar for 40 bucks. He tells Jesse maybe we can borrow a guitar, and he's all stressed as usual and then he tells him he found a guitar so they drive to get that. But when they see the guitar it has only 4 strings and no amp to plug it in so Kenny talked him down to 30 bucks and  then they drive another 20 minutes to get a mike stand for 20 bucks. Then they pick up Me and JoeJoe and off to the club we go. We have no clue where we can get strings so we are hoping someone has some there. We arrive around 9:45 and eventually talk to Today's Paramount, cool band from Denver CO that was setting up and they saved the day. Kash strung the guitar, or Kenny I forgot and when Stevie Joe arrived he just picked it up and played. We met a Boston music legend Joe Black who has a new CD "Blackenstein"  that rocks. He sat in with us on Green Haze . GREEN HAZE- Jesse & The Hogg Brothers with Joe Black on bass

Anyway we did get through the drama but there's always more and was but that's it on the blog!

LIVE IN PROVIDENCE RI INFO !

Friday, February 16 at 8 PM - 12 AM 

American Lithuanian Citizens Beneficial Club 

475 Smith St, Providence, Rhode Island 02908

With Keepher Pez

The Great Joebob Hogg will be joining us at Friday's show, come see him play. @ The Lith Club 9 PM

Jesse and The Hogg Brothers on Patreon  NOW YOU REALLY CAN JOIN THE FAMILY just click on the link.

Jesse and Neil together - New Years Eve in Dallas TX at Lee Harvey's  I thought I would never live to see it. Is the feud over? I have so many questions and no answers. It was quite a time playing again with cousin JR HOGG

as well as Cousin JoeJoe on Drums, Kenny on Guitar and it was family fun time for sure

the next night was at Andys in Denton

 Then it was off to Indy, St Louis and Taylorville IL and tomorrow we are back in Jamaica Plain @ The Midway 

10 Questions - Interview w Jesse & The Hogg Brothers

1 ) Moopis wants to play, Bitey wants to bite.

2 ) My cat kicks ass

Can you guess the band member past or present who said each quote?  (Future band members not included.)