Un Hombre Malo Anthology

Track Listings

1. Everybody Wants Something

2. Wash Away Blues

3. Tell the World

4. Schuffln Down the street

5. A lot of Love to give

6. Bring me your body

7. Mr. T

8. U me and BET

9. Silent me

10. Sunshine

11. favorite things

12. Dead and Gone

13. Sweet Thing

14. Corndog

15. 4:25

16. james Brown

17. Bingo

18. Chicken bone

19. el nino

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
HOSTY DUO

Michael Hosty: vocals, guitar, bass, harmonica, kazoo Michael "Tic Tac" Byars: Drums, Sagittarius, ladies' man

Michael Hosty is a blue collar poet ministering to the roadhouse masses.

The singing songwriting half of the Hosty Duo, Hosty is a man who won't be pigeonholed. His heroes are Hasil Adkins and R.L. Burnside. He's a big fan of Dick Dale and digs the hell out of Jerry Reed. He fantasizes about singing with an African-American gospel choir. And being Conway Twitty.

Hosty's voice is as sexy smooth as anything in your R&B make-out collection, but he does his crooning in a wrinkled white t-shirt and blue jeans. By the time he delves into raunchy slide guitar work to growl about funnel cake, Miller High Life and menthols three minutes after being neck deep in a sultry ballad, the word genre has lost all meaning.

"What it is, is 'hic-hop'," says Hosty.

Hosty and his sidekick, two-piece drummer Michael "Tic Tac" Byars, are headquartered in their hometown of Norman, Okla. Hosty Duo is a small business juggernaut that has to its credit four self-produced and self-released albums, a touring schedule of more than 250 shows a year, songs in a handful of independent films, and a clever countrified skull-and-crossbones logo designed by Tic-Tac that paved the way for a merchandise line of t-shirts (S-XXXL), stickers, and for a short time, Hosty Duo kazoos.

"The kazoos probably weren't our best idea," Hosty says. "The people would buy 'em up every night before the show and drown us out while we were on stage. And we never saw it coming."

Hosty is equipped with a wit drier than August in Oklahoma. His sense of humor is captured not only in the Duo's songs, but in all that surrounds the band, from the now legendary press photo that shows the boys accepting trophies and waving to empty bleachers at a drag strip, to their white touring van they call Ol' Blue because, as Hosty explains it, the van is blue "on the inside, where it counts."

The Duo's bulging HossTone Music catalog is loaded with catchy and quirky compositions like "Dishwasher Blues," "Corndog," and "I Will Work for Booty," but also features sultry R&B love songs like "Motion" and "Bring Me Your Body." In his song "Chicken Bone," Hosty howls "I lick my lady like a chicken bone" and in "Maybe," he tries to woo a flaky woman with "a loaf of Wonder bread and a bottle of wine" while professing that she's "better lookin' than hop sing's cookin'." Hosty likes to pay tribute to his heroes in song. He has a biographical collection of writings that include "Mr. T," "Chewbacca," and "James Brown."

The Duo's live show is awe inspiring. Tic Tac thumps out a bastard drum sound lifted from many-a smokey blues hall, truck stop discount tape bin, juke joint, and honky tonk roadhouse. This son of a rodeo cowboy fancies beat up cowboy hats and worn out bandanas for head gear and parks himself behind a bare bones kit that would handcuff a less creative drummer. The bespectacled kinky-haired Hosty sits on a stool with a guitar on his lap and slide on his ring finger, and stomps out bass lines with pedals at his feet as he plays harmonica and blows the 15-cent kazoo taped to his mic stand. Hosty periodically pokes at buttons to sprinkle the Duo's songs with sound bytes of Jerry Clower routines, '60s B-movies, and scary pulpit warnings from fire-and-brimstone preachers. He plays a custom built eight string guitar that allows him to thump a pair of bass strings with his thumb while he fingerpicks guitar.

"You've just got to see these guys," writes Bill Richards in Vibe magazine. "I was blown away."

"We're just a couple of hicks trying to play funk and rhythm and blues," Hosty offers. "That's about all there is to it."

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For more information contact Lisa Turner at 615.646.2710 or LTurner1515@aol.com.

Product Description
Mike Hosty anthology of Oklahoma Hic hop from 1996-2000

Un Hombre Malo Anthology,Mike Hosty

Un Hombre Malo Anthology