During the fall of 2006 the North Carolina-based garage-blues duo The Moaners decided to revisit their Mississippi roots and travel by van and backcountry blacktop to Yalobusha Country, Mississippi. The mission: To record their latest album, BLACKWING YALOBUSHA, with former Squirrel Nut Zippers founder and producer Jimbo Mathus. The songs tell tall tales of barstool black belts and monkey tongues while turned-down slide guitar tumbles through the delta landscapes of Faulkner and O'Connor.