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Apache Relay w/Romany Rye & Rose's Pawn Shop
Price: $5
If rock 'n' roll has taught us anything, it's that no idiom is safe from misreading — in fact, that's part of the fun, unless you're some kind of purist. What the Los Angeles quintet Rose's Pawn Shop does with bluegrass, country and rockabilly is analogous to the kind of freewheeling recombination earlier groups practiced with, say, jump blues and Western swing. On their new full-length, Dancing on the Gallows, Rose's Pawn Shop use bluegrass instrumentation, but somehow the idea of Django Reinhardt-style swing has crept into the popular conception of bluegrass, so their music comes across as good old L.A. country-rock with fiddles, banjo and drums — plus a vaguely jazzy harmonic sense. Their clever arrangements are flavored with tempo shifts and overdriven guitars that recall the glory days of psychobilly, as on the idiomatically imprecise but stirring rocker "Ball of Flame."
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The Basement
- 1604 8th Ave. S., Nashville Broadway/ The Gulch/ Music Row/ West End TN 37203
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254-8006
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