Slim Cessna's Auto Club is an alternative country

Alternative country

Alternative country is a loosely defined sub-genre of country music, which includes acts that differ significantly in style from mainstream or pop country music...

-gothabilly

Gothabilly

Gothabilly , is one of several music and cultural subgenres of rockabilly. The name is a portmanteau word that combines gothic and rockabilly. The earliest known use of the word gothabilly was by The Cramps in the late 1970s, to describe their blend of somber, rockabilly-influenced punk rock...

 band formed in 1992 in Denver, Colorado

Colorado

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. The constant in the band has been Slim Cessna, formerly a member of The Denver Gentlemen along with David Eugene Edwards

David Eugene Edwards

David Eugene Edwards is an American musician.He is the lead singer of Wovenhand, and also the main songwriter and the principal musician on the recordings of the band. He is the former lead singer of 16 Horsepower...

 and Jeffery-Paul of 16 Horsepower

16 Horsepower

16 Horsepower was an American alternative country music group based in Denver, Colorado. Their music often invoked religious imagery dealing with conflict, redemption, punishment, and guilt through David Eugene Edwards's lyrics and the heavy use of traditional bluegrass, gospel, and Appalachian...

.http://www.smoochrecords.com/bands/denvergentlemen.html Jay Munly

Jay Munly

Jay Munly is a banjo player, guitarist, singer, and songwriter based in Denver, Colorado. He has played a significant role in the development of the "Denver Sound", music that mixes elements of country, Gothic, folk, and gospel...

 (often credited as "Munly") is also a key member of the current lineup of the band. In addition to contributing songwriting, vocals, and banjo, he also serves as a sidekick to Cessna on stage.

Their music includes elements of country blues

Country blues

Country blues is a general term that refers to all the acoustic, mainly guitar-driven forms of the blues. It often incorporated elements of rural gospel, ragtime, hillbilly, and dixieland jazz...

, Southern gospel

Southern Gospel

Southern Gospel music—at one time also known as "quartet music"—is music whose lyrics are written to express either personal or a communal faith regarding biblical teachings and Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music...

, gothabilly and other forms loosely grouped as Americana

Americana (music)

Americana is an amalgam of roots musics formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the American musical ethos; specifically those sounds that are merged from folk, country, blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll and other external influential styles...

 or alternative country. The Auto Club is sometimes labeled "country Gothic

Gothic Americana

Gothic Americana is a style of alternative country that fuses Americana music with elements of gothic rock, gothabilly, psychobilly, deathcountry...

" due to the juxtaposition of apocalyptic

Apocalypse

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 religious imagery with stories of alcohol

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, violence, and relationships gone awry.

Other current and/or former members (in no particular order) include Rev. Dwight Pentacost, Chadzilla, Ordy Garrison, Shane Trost, John Rumley (who also crafted many of the stringed instruments used), Jon Killough (who also did the artwork for the 2005 live CD Jesus Let Me Down and "Buried Behind the Barn"), Whiff (Steve) Cessna, Caleb Roberts, Frank Hauser Jr., Judithann, Rev. Adam Glasseye, Tim Maher and Danny Pants (aka Daniel Grandbois).http://www.brothersgrandbois.com

In March 2008, the band released their fourth studio album, titled Cipher, on Alternative Tentacles Records. Cipher was recorded and produced by Robert Ferbrache in Westminster, Colorado.http://www.slimcessnasautoclub.com/news/index.asp

Slim Cessna's Auto Club released their fifth studio album, Unentitled, in March 2011.

Side projects

Members of the Auto Club are involved with many other bands besides the Auto Club. Here are the bands and which members (and previous members) are involved in them.

Jay Munly

Jay Munly

Jay Munly is a banjo player, guitarist, singer, and songwriter based in Denver, Colorado. He has played a significant role in the development of the "Denver Sound", music that mixes elements of country, Gothic, folk, and gospel...

 (solo) - Munly, John Rumley has contributed

Munly and the Lee Lewis Harlots - Munly

The Denver Gentlemen - Slim Cessna, Frank Hauser Jr.

Denver Broncos - Slim Cessna, Munly, Reverend Dwight Pentacost

Blackstone Valley Sinners - Slim Cessna, Judithann

Woven Hand

Woven Hand

Wovenhand is a band from Denver, Colorado led by former 16 Horsepower lead singer David Eugene Edwards. Woven Hand's music combines elements of neofolk, alternative country, post-rock, punk, industrial music, folk rock, old-time music and native American music, among other influences.-History:The...

 - Ordy Garrison, Shane Trost

Open Road - Caleb Roberts

Reverend Glasseye - Adam Glasseye, Tim Maher

Kalamath Brothers - Frank Hauser Jr.

The Hush - John Rumley

Tarantella - John Rumley, Ordy Garrison, Chadzilla, Danny Pants, Shane Trost

Boxcar 7 - Whiff Cessna

Munly and The Lupercalians - Munly Munly, Chadzilla, Danny Pants

Discography

• Slim Cessna's Auto Club (1995 (self-released); 2001, Alternative Tentacles Records)
• American Country Music Saved Her Life (1998) out of print
• Always Say Please and Thank You (2000, Alternative Tentacles)
• The Bloudy Tenent Truth Peace (2004, Alternative Tentacles) review
• Jesus Let Me Down (live) (CD released 2005, Smooch Records, Vinyl released 2010, Alternative Tentacles)
• Cipher
  Cipher
  In cryptography, a cipher is an algorithm for performing encryption or decryption — a series of well-defined steps that can be followed as a procedure. An alternative, less common term is encipherment. In non-technical usage, a “cipher” is the same thing as a “code”; however, the concepts...
  
  (2008, Alternative Tentacles)
• Buried Behind the Barn (2010, Alternative Tentacles)
• Unentitled (2011, Alternative Tentacles)