Rumble & Scream
Post-Industrial Sounds in Pennsylkrainia
Act I
February 2, 2025
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