As winds to a close, folk music fans are left with a difficult decision as to where to spend their concert money tonight.
sold out the in mere minutes; quite the feat for a band who was seemingly on no one’s radar less than one year ago. The quartet’s European take on contemporary bluegrass has earned them comparisons to the Avett Brothers, and several of their YouTube videos have passed the million mark.
growth has been slower, though their fan base at the will be no less rabid. The gritty, Providence, Rhode Island (is there grit in Providence?) band is rooted in lead singer John McCauley’s abrasive rasp. Think a pre-pubescent Tom Waits with a garage rock aesthetic, though still, at its core, folk.
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John Hendrickson is the Managing Editor of Reverb and a multimedia journalist for The Denver Post.
