Hush Money won’t be paying me no hush money, as I’m going to shout about this band wherever I can.
From the second Go Back Home started it was like meeting an old buddy who you knew well but hadn’t seen for a while. If you like you’re Alt.Country a little on the rocky side then this is the band for you. It certainly is the band for me.
At first I’m thinking Steve Earle, Mavericks, Hank Williams Jr and then a little Stones crept in mixed in with a little Georgia Satellites, which is funny because this four piece hail from Georgia. So many influences all worn on their sleeves, but every song sounding fresh as daisy.
This band carries three vocalists and all of them great, but the main one is I think Seth Weaver, who looks about twenty but sounds about fifty with a booming country baritone voice. His brother Greg also shares vocals and is one of those rare creatures, a singing drummer. Caleb Logan is the third vocalist and second guitarist. Before I read they were brothers I was thinking the harmonies sounded like sibling harmonies, there is something about siblings singing together which is unbeatable, think Everly Brothers, or recently Larkin Poe.
I was thinking halfway through first listening, with Bad Side bursting though the speakers that they sound like they could have met in a drunk tank after a wild night out in a one horse town. Obviously they didn’t as two of them are brothers, but the attitude and sass just shine through.
Some great guitar interplay between Seth and Caleb too, they just have a feel which tells you they have been trading licks for a good while.
Before I forget the line up is completed by Nathaniel Newberry who, with Greg makes up a solid rhythm section.
Outstanding track for me was Copperhill, a slower track, but telling the story of a mining town in Tennessee which got shafted and poisoned by the mining company. An all too familiar story, put across with a different angle , but plenty of emotion, with some tasty mandolin work creeping in too.
I say outstanding, but there is not much in it, I just love a good story. The rest of the tracks, Steve McQueen, San Antonia Dream, Sellout City, No Questions, El Paso Serenade, Need A Little Rain, Think Back To Mama, Cold Bars, Adios Chinatown and finishing with a Steve Earlesque, It Aint Love, are all rollicking southern country rock tunes and they couldn’t pay me enough to keep quiet about that. What a great discovery. Please come back to the UK soon guys, I missed you first time round.
