Whiskey Myers guitarist John Jeffers has described the latest album, Whomp Whack Thunder, as the band’s “most fearless yet.” In fairness, the same could be said for the previous six releases. But by the sound of detonating lead single Time Bomb, the Texans are seriously sticking their chests out.
Whiskey Myers – Whomp Whack Thunder
Release Date: 26 September 2025
Words: Brian Boyle
Locked in a room at his house and staring at the four walls, main man Cody Cannon, who wrote the entire album, admitted the process was boring. Well, if such a mundane description and setting can bring to life southern rock gold like Tailspin, then long may his bleak creative sessions continue.
Never a band to stay comfortably holed up in one genre, I Got To Move has copious amounts of blues swagger and more than enough to make Jagger and Richards up their game.
When it comes to ballads, there are not many bands better at giving your heartstrings a good old twang. And just like some of their previous tearjerkers like Bury My Bones, Stone and Virginia, Rowdy Days does not fail in stopping you dead in your tracks. It is a mountainous track that triumphs in its simplistic purity. And if this was the last country ballad ever written, then they are ending on a soul-searching high.
Although the album is lyrically very personal and searches for redemption and healing, it is still tremendously upbeat. On Icarus, Cannon sounds like he is baring his soul, and the results sound like joyous liberation.
While Whiskey Myers were never a band who lit up The Billboard Top 100, halfway through this album, it already feels like a greatest hits collection. The instantly lovable Midnight Woman thunders along, fuelled by southern hooks and one of those choruses that takes up squatters’ rights in your bloodstream.
“Midnight Woman is that raw, late-night energy you can’t shake off,” lead singer Cody Cannon says. “Part voodoo, part rock ‘n’ roll fever dream, it’s about the kind of woman who doesn’t just walk into your life. She storms in like thunder and leaves you dizzy in her wake.”
Break The Chains is more meat and potatoes, in your mush rock ‘n’ roll, with dirty guitars that sound like they have been dipped in a well-aged bourbon barrel.
On the soothing Born To Do, your mind just gets completely washed, bar visions of a lake sunset accompanied by some hops, yeast and barley. Being a soul cleansing tonic is what this band have always been, though, but the honesty coursing through this album just makes it a completely more zen experience. The gritty Rock N Roll is a big bully of a tune, dark and sinister, but one that is hard not to get completely lost and immersed in.
Seven albums in a seventeen-year recording career is an impressive run of prolificity for any band, and in that time, they have never remotely come close to releasing a clunker. But Whomp Whack Thunder feels like they have fallen upon a real golden patch. The tunes are memorable and totally relatable.
Something like the double denim stomp of Ramblin’ Jones screams a band thoroughly comfortable in their own skin right now.
As for closer Monsters, you will not find more sterner evidence of a band who refuse to be pigeonholed. They could not have picked a more laid-back, yet hugely emotional way to pull the curtains down on this album.
“We didn’t set out to chase a specific sound,” lead guitarist John Jeffers told us. “We set out to make a Whiskey Myers record. Jay [Joyce, producer] pulled something out of us that’s raw and real, and every track’s got a piece of our story in it. This album’s about where we’ve been, what we’ve lived and the scars we earned along the way, and I think Whomp Whack Thunder might just be our most fearless album yet.”
Buy it, feel it, stream it or steal it. Whomp Whack Thunder will make your life a whole lot better.
Whiskey Myers release Whomp Whack Thunder on 26 September 2025 via the band’s own Wiggy Thump Records. For more details and pre-orders, visit firebird.lnk.to/WhompWhackThunder.
