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.
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