Baptized by the unyielding waters of fury and forged by the raging fire of vitriol, The Old Smugglers have created a shanty-rock, jazz-pirate sound big and scary enough to make Tom Waits walk the plank. Whiskey-bent sea shanties. Hillbilly horror country. Maritime folk from the lost coast. The Old Smugglers deliver an intoxicating shiver of sound that will never go down with the ship. The group is led by multi-instrumentalist Erik Pearson (aka the Infamous Dr. Thunder) and guitarist Joshua Murray (aka Mr. December) with bassist Nathan Johnston (aka Honeypants) and drummer Erich Johnston (aka the German). The full-length album Fever Dreams and Fire Sweats was released in 2022.