The Adventures of Mabel & Carter

by Betty Benedeadly

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Carsten Pieper Surf rock with a psychedelic twang. Excellent EP! Thanks to rs1972 for the hint! Favorite track: Rite of the Dusty Trail.

Solitude & Sin I love Betty Benedeadly’s music 🤘 she is the coolest motherfucking woman of the desert. My spirit aspires to conquer the cacti in her footsteps.

Charlie Hodgson Another great piece of spaghetti western surf guitar music by Betty Benedeadly. Favorite track: Release the Reins.

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1.	Rite of the Dusty Trail 03:01	buy track
2.	The Voice of the Fire 04:03	buy track
3.	Transmutation 03:31	buy track
4.	Release the Reins 04:36	buy track

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Betty Benedeadly’s second EP continues the solo musician’s sonic exploration of psychedelic folk, blending her signature cinematic, spaghetti western guitar riffs with surf, Americana and rock & roll. These desert-invoking instrumentals conjure images of dusty horse trails and the open road. They embody the expansive sense of freedom that the American Southwest and road trip adventures inspire, particularly in a civilization emerging from a global pandemic.

As she left behind the solitude and dusty mesas of northern New Mexico, she headed to Joshua Tree, raising two baby Polish chicks in her van along the way. “At that time, I’d recently learned of Mother Maybelle Carter and began to understand that so many of the guitar lineages I aspire to uphold trace their roots back to this singular woman. She was a matriarch and architect of what eventually became rock & roll, and so few people know her name. Naturally, I named my new chicks Mabel and Carter in tribute.”

Living out of the van, and now raising Mabel and Carter, Benedeadly studied the style of guitar playing popularized by Maybelle Carter known as the Carter scratch. “While exploring Joshua Tree, picking my guitar on the porches of Pioneertown, practicing the Carter scratch, and playing with my chicks, these songs were born,” says Benedeadly. “This album was truly made of chicken scratch and Carter scratch.”

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released February 18, 2022

1) Rite of the Dusty Trail
2) The Voice of the Fire*
3) Transmutation†
4) Release the Reins

Betty Benedeadly - Producer, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist
Braden Guess - Music director, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist
*Heather Thomas - Drums
†Belle Cardinal - Vocals, singing bowls
Phil Kegley, The Oven - Recording, mixing
Cris Burns, Ameripolitan Studios - Mixing, mastering
Album art by Betty Benedeadly
Executive Producer Tami B
Recorded July 2021 in Austin, TX

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Betty Benedeadly Austin, Texas

Betty Benedeadly plays twang-edelic, foot-stomping ritualistic rhythms and guitar-driven motifs that draw from Ennio Morricone’s spaghetti westerns, surf, and roots rock.
Benedeadly is also the co-founder and guitarist of Sheverb, a womxn-led, collectively run, psychedelic rock & roll band based in Austin, TX ... more

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Apr 20

Pedernales Falls Trading Post

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May 3

The Pony

Marfa, TX

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