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.

Photo courtesy of D.R. Temchack

The song will give me counsel,

Advise & entertain,

And speak the truth to me.

—Taras Shevchenko