Drinking Dark Whiskey – The SteelDrivers
A bunch of seasoned, road tested Nashville studio vets with a shared love of bluegrass, The SteelDrivers have an interesting take on a pretty traditional genre: eschewing the high lonesome cliche in favor of a bluesy Muscle Shoals soul vocal sound. The playing is stellar and the songwriting is not your standard “pig in a pen” fare. Their self titled debut is out on Rounder Records.
Don’t Send Me Roses – Chris Unck And The Black Roses
Sticking with the firewater theme, Chris Unck wants to continue imbibing the amber fluid in the afterlife, imploring his successors to “make sure that you bury me with my mouth wide open/you can pour that whiskey down on my grave”. Country Roads And Love, the debut by these folky Southern rockers from Atlanta, came out on Lower 40 a couple weeks ago.
Speaking of Southern rock, a big reason I’m sorry I’m not headed down to Austin for SXSW (unlike seemingly every other blogger on the planet) is that I’ll miss The Whipsaws. The second record from these youthful Anchorage roots rockers is called 60 Watt Avenue and it’s on Shut Eye. Killer crunchy guitars with thought provoking lyrics like the track above that addresses the current conflict from a poignant, personal point of view. Imagine The Drive By Truckers were from Alaska instead of Athens, GA and listened to early Neil Young instead of Lynyrd Skynyrd and you get the idea…
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