Bleeding Cowboys Lives

A little over a year ago, Farce the Music told you about the absurdly overused free font called Bleeding Cowboys. It's the go-to font when graphic designers who apparently live in a bubble want to denote edginess or grit for their album cover/website designs. Well, here it is 2012, and it's still being used far too much. I'd go as far as to say it's become the #3 most hated font after Comic Sans and Papyrus. For your viewing displeasure, here's a slew of new or unposted Bleeding Cowboys offenders. Please make it stop.

Note: Shooter almost certainly used the font satirically.

FTM 101 Best of 2011: 51-75

51. Ha Ha Tonka - Death of a Decade
52. Micky and the Motorcars - Raise My Glass
53. Glen Campbell - Ghost on the Canvas
54. Sam Sliva and the Good - And the People Say
55. 13ghosts - Liar's Melody
56. The Redlands Palomino Company - Don't Fade
57. The Horrible Crowes - Elsie
58. Social Distortion - Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes
59. Jay Z & Kanye West - Watch the Throne
60. Steve Earle - I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive


61. Have Gun Will Travel - Mergers & Acquisitions
62. Eric Church - Chief
63. Drive-by Truckers - Go-Go Boots
64. Robert Earl Reed - Carlene
65. Johnny Corndawg - Down on the Bikini Line
66. Amos Lee - Mission Bell
67. Gillian Welch - The Harrow and the Harvest
68. Jeremy Steding - I Keep on Livin', But I Don't Learn
69. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo


70. The Low Anthem - Smart Flesh
71. Jason Fratesi and the Dirt Road Jam Band - Cryin' Out Loud
72. Thieving Birds - S/T
73. Brad Paisley - This is Country Music
74. Nick 13 - S/T
75. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues

Jason Fratesi & The Dirt Road Jam Band

Don't worry, they're not that kind of jam band. Check out this massive run-on sentence from my review, then read the whole thing at Roughstock.

Blending the neo-traditional sounds of 90's country acts like Ricky Van Shelton and Neal McCoy with the barroom blues of Delbert McClinton and the contemporary edge of the Zac Brown Band, Leland, Mississippi's Jason Fratesi and the Dirt Road Jam Band are firmly anchored to the roots of countrymusic while presenting a thoroughly modern, radio-ready set of tunes.