Rumble & Scream: Post-Industrial Sounds in Pennsylkrainia—Act I is a newfound piece of the quilt that is Appalachian-American culture. Much more than a debut full-length album, it is a traditional folk-rock opera and a modern musical myth for the post-digital age to come. 

Created and produced by multi-instrumentalists and creative partners: Jordan Tyler Temchack, Bethany Temchack, and Justin Kasubick, Rumble & Scream, is the fictional story of Jeremiah Scream and Betty Rumble who live in a small, rural village in Northern Appalachia called Holy Crick, Pennsylkrainia.

In the year 2100, the tale is narrated by the pair’s grandson, Lattimore Scream—an Ukrainian-American kobzar meets hillbilly-folksinger—who stitches together all the songs and stories that were passed down to him from his grandparent’s collection of co-writes and oral histories into a musical memoir that he hopes is worthy of their honor.   

Acknowledgements:

Rumble & Scream: Post-Industrial Sounds in Pennsylkrainia—Act I, was funded, in part, by a 2022 Appal Seed Fund grant, sponsored by Appalshop and WMMT 88.7FM. This project is recorded, produced, and distributed by Holy Crick Records, LLC.

The song will give me counsel,

Advise & entertain,

And speak the truth to me.

—Taras Shevchenko