Bluegrass Punk on Fat - convincing history

When you hear someone say, he would need a new grass, you think well, a drug dealer contact him his superior authority. But far from it, as Newgrass dub nine punk rockers from the San Fernando Valley in LA their homage to the American folk tradition, the Bluegrass.

Your guitars are blue, red and white. Be even women added to their music band and married them even. Washtub bass and violins? Clear! What the hell are people riding with Fat Wreck to publish this stuff? Oh nonsense that even sitting up in the saddle and have everything under control, because OLDS MAN MARKLEY occupy a niche in a sympathetic way in Fat catalog that they have to share on the label limit, with only a few other bands.

Inevitably fall as a Flogging Molly a, The Real McKenzies or Dropkick Murphys. What OLD MAN MARKLEY however different from all, is that they are not punk band with a folk painting and fabricate no artificial ethno-rock, because unlike the other its modern adaptation of country, folk and bluegrass is an original. This one is already closer to the work of the Englishman from The Levellers. Whether not give rise to suspicion in faster songs like 'For better for worse' or 'Struggling' that frame the album, or in neutral, repossessed numbers like 'Songs Songs' or the title track, which leaves whole due to its instrumentation and its sound OLD MAN MARLEY would publish on a punk label and go with NOFX gig! If they do, however!

OLD MAN MARKLEY are an entertaining surprise. To what extent they may have a longer half-life musical, the future will tell. Until then I sell the tape to my father as DIIIEEEE new Country-sensation from the USA. Let's see if he buys me.