Rusty Ends & Hillbilly Hoodoo - Roadhouses, Juke Joints and Honky-Tonks (2025) Hi-Res

The Hillbilly HooDoo of Rusty Ends is a beguiling blend of the contrasting musical idioms that the guitarist soaked up like a sponge during a well-spent Kentucky youth. “It’s a combination of our Kentucky roots and the hoodoo beat of New Orleans,” explains Rusty, “and the greasy kind of swamp stuff.

In our music, you hear a lot of those different genres.” Across the decades, Rusty has played more than his share of roadhouses, juke joints, and honky-tonks. His savory musical stew is guaranteed to keep you moving and grooving from first note to last. “To this day, I get uncomfortable when people don’t dance,” he says. “I just feel like I’m doing something wrong if I can’t get them up on the dance floor.”

Happily following his own muse, Rusty Ends continues to brew up his own brand of Hillbilly HooDoo, intent on letting the world luxuriate in his irresistible musical hybrid. “Hank Williams, he had the blues,” he says. “It comes from someplace really deep. I think it’s an African American art form. It comes from maybe deep inside the earth or something. Maybe something really primal. To me, blues is what it makes you feel inside.”