Alive Records presents the new album by southern punk-ass blues duo Black Diamond Heavies! Titled “A Touch of Someone Else’s Class,” the band recorded the album with producer Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys at his Akron Analog studio. Long-time Tom Waits associate Ralph Carney guests on horns.

Black Diamond Heavies are a two-piece consisting of John Wesley Myers on bass keys, fender rhodes, organ, and vocals (left hand of rhythm, right hand of soul) and Van Campbell completing the lineup on drums and vocals. A family pedigree that has Myers’ father a Baptist preacher and Campbell coming from a family of bourbon distillers (seriously, “Old Rip Van Winkle”), the Heavies are about nothing but pounding out their raucous punk take on the blues and soul, southern style.