You’ll hear ZZ Top-style boogie, hints of Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin, and some excellent twin-guitar passages in the music of Nashville rockers Stone Senate. Led by singer Clint Woolsey, the quintet modernizes Southern rock, but not too much: Their 2014 EP 1 sports songs about whiskey, cold women and love that turns out to be a disease. They demonstrate a feel for the psychological demands of their slightly psychedelic style on the 1 track “Dreams,” a tune that finds Woolsey singing, “I ran from room to room / Just to keep about my wits.” The band, which also includes guitarists James Beau Edwards and Marcus Brown, cut their new full-length Star City in Nashville with producer Kenny Olson. With the rhythm section of brothers David and Paul Zettler keeping everything grounded, Stone Senate knows when to play it straight and when to make it fancy, which means they’re furthering the great Southern-rock tradition. EDD HURT
Stone Senate w/The Great Affairs
