Saturday, July 11, 2009
Those Darlins: A Band For My Summer
Who can resist of musical group of young women with an agenda and an attitude? Well, I certainly have a weakness for such confederations. From Roches to Neoboys to L7 to The Slits to Swoosh to Breeders to Zap Mama to early Indigo Girls to the Donnas to Electralane even Dixie Chicks and Go-Gos; What's not to love and admire?
Summer of 2009 brings another to this list for me. I first heard about Those Darlins in an
article in the NY Times I was on emusic within the hour downloading and totally swept up a special kind of punk meets traditional country world that seems only to belong to this group.
How punk are they? Well their names are very Ramone like. Those Darlins consists of Kelley, Jessi, and Nikki Darlin as well as some guy who plays the drums for them. They are from Tennessee. Their heritage and culture are worn like the product you get at a d tattoo parlor with a Confederate flag overhead.
As their written profile at Daytrotter Session this is a band that sings a lot about drinking and heartache a lot. But the difference is they make it feel really convincing. Daytrotter has a four song set available through Wolfgang's Vault. Here's a track and a YouTube sample of Those Darlins in person. This is turning out to be quite an Americana summer. I really love what this group is doing. Maybe it is a bit of selfishness on my part, but I hope they have some more time to learn their craft before their audience gets to be too big.
posted by well-executed buffet at 11:34 AM
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