"Nick Cave meets Johnny Cash" -The Cincinnati Enquirer "Mournful songs (which mix the moods and textures of Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash, Tom Waits and Nick Cave)...A striking cd" - St. Louis Magazine "With Their Appalachian echoes & imaginative new lyrics, Orton's songs reach straight for the audience" -St. Louis Post Dispatch "Jars you to the strangeness of this American landscape...Deserted fairgrounds, unlit country roads, sawdust floored barrooms, vandalized cemeteries and overstayed debutante balls...Born of inner necessity" -Amazon.com "Melodies that cross numerous genres ranging from country to rock to cabaret... lovely Faulkneresque stories set to music". -cdbaby.com "A dark & original slice of Americana" -apple i-tunes A mix of Blues, Folk, Country, Cabaret & vintage 60's Garage Rock, The Malediction's sound has affectionately been described as, "Country Noir" or "Gothic Americana". According to bandleader, Kevin Orton: "It's all just Folk music really...Maybe aggressive Folk but Folk music at heart...I tend to write songs about people who are un-insured". The Maledictions have their roots in Orton's 2003 solo album, FEMME NOIR, which featured a number of guest artists including The Violent Femmes' Gordon Gano. Soon after, Orton formed The Maledictions and 2005 saw the release of IDLE HANDS. The band is currently gigging with a new crop of songs, some of which will be featured in an upcoming EP. A new album is also in the works. MALEDICTION (mal-e-dik-shen): "curse, excecration"-Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary DICTIONARY (dik-shen-air-ee):"A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic"-The Devil's Dictionary FEMME NOIR is also currently available on CD baby. For more on The Maledictions visit their offical site or www.myspace.com/themaledictions. VIDEO can be viewed at: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=hickorywind77#