Hello Everyone,

You can now pre-order True Love Cast Out All Evil!  The album is available on CD and vinyl and we are also offering a limited edition t-shirt featuring a hand-drawn portrait of Roky Erickson circa 1974 by Will Sheff.  Purchase your order here.

“50 Songs Every Man Should Be Listening To”

Because this line: “Suddenly my fireplace is friendly. / Bringin’ me home.” Considering all that Erickson has been through — as chronicled in the 2005 documentary…read more at Esquire.

“CD Review: Roky Erickson With Okkervil River – True Love Cast Out All Evil (Anti-, 2010)”

Roky Erickson’s new album begins with a field recording, made by his mother during a visit to the Rusk State Maximum Security Prison For The Criminally Insane. He’d been sent there after being arrested for possession of one joint in 1969, and served for three years…read more at LAist

“Roky Erickson With Okkervil River”

With all due respect to the Grateful Dead, the saga of Roky Erickson is the longest, strangest trip in rock & roll history. The abridged version opens with the levitating glow of Erickson’s 13th Floor Elevators and the bloom of psychedelic music…read more at Austin Chronicle.

“Day Party Crawl”

If there was any doubt about the pairing of psychedelic pioneer Roky Erickson and literary balladeers Okkervil River when the Chronicle forged the bond between the two local icons at the 2008 Austin Music Awards, they disappeared with “Rokkervil’s” redebut to headline the first day of Paste’s weeklong bender…read more at Austin Chronicle.

“Call it Rokkervil: Indie pop and psychedelia come together on new album”

It seemed an odd musical coupling at first, when Austin music’s mystical past and wide-eyed future hunkered down in a South Austin studio to make a record from tattered little songs that had practically been abandoned. Over here was Will Sheff, the wordy, nerdy, Oscar Wilde of epic pop, and his Austin-based band of critics’ darlings Okkervil River. And out there was Roky Erickson, a wild and wooly, 62-year-old throat-singer in the midst of a storybook comeback from decades of mental exile…read more at Austin American Statesman

“True Love Cast Out All Evil – a sequel of the spirit”

This is not a review of the upcoming Roky Erickson collaboration with Okkervil River on “True Love Cast Out All Evil,” which comes out April 20 on Anti Records. This is a series of impressions on first listen to Erickson’s first new album in 14 years…read more at the Austin American Statesman