The Gypsy Bangles - Women & Whiskey

                                                                       

























I got an e-mail from this band the other day asking if I would check them out and give them a review. They told me they play in the style of bands like Free... So I figured What the hell Skynfan loves him some Free.. So I go over to there site and figure.. hell this will probably be some youtube wanna be garage band.. Um... No... In fact what I found when I clicked up the First track Women and Whiskey was some very great old school Rock n Roll.. Complete with Killer Bass.. Solid Drums.. Great Guitar Riffs .. And a singer that can actually SING!!! Listening to the rest of the Songs on there website I can Honestly say that I am now a fan of this wonderful Band from Australia!!! These are the kinds of songs I want to rock in my car while rolling down the Highway!!! They fit right in there with the rest of the killer music that sits on my Ipod!! 
Think Skynyrd/Great White/Free.. In other words... Rock n Roll!!!

From http://bluesrockreview.com

Women & Whiskey is the debut EP from The Gypsy Bangles, an Australian blues rock band whose music pays tribute to the likes of Free and Deep Purple. The Gypsy Bangles feature Kegan DeBoheme on guitar and lead vocals, Alcides Stowe on drums, Peter Thwaite on bass, and Gabrielle De Giorgio provides the keys. It may be 2011, but The Gypsy Bangles style is straight out of the 1970′s from their sound to the production.

Women & Whiskey starts with “Love and Light,” and the first riff immediately takes you back in time. The classic rock sound is 100% intentional, and while The Gypsy Bangles aren’t breaking any ground here, the songs are all original and high quality. The title track features an excellent hook, as well as some fine guitar playing from Kegan DeBoheme. DeBoheme has a great voice for rock and his vocal phrasing is reminiscent of the some of the prominent singers of the 60′s and 70′s.

The Gypsy Bangles aren’t doing anything new with Women & Whiskey, but they aren’t trying to. It’s refreshing to see a new rock band with such an organic sound. Women & Whiskey is definitely worth giving a listen for any classic rock fan, and will be a band to keep an eye on as they ready their debut album.

The Review: 7.5/10

The Big Hit

- Women & Whiskey

http://thegypsybangles.bandcamp.com/

Blackberry Smoke - 2010-08-26 - Sellersville, PA

Look for a new DVD from Blackberry Smoke to be released on Black Friday. Just in time to make a great stocking stuffer!!!!
The DVD will feature live performances and behind the scenes footage of the band.


Listen to Blackberry Smoke here
http://www.blackberrysmoke.com/

Thanks to EDGE @ http://www.guitars101.com 

Blackberry Smoke - 2010-08-26 - Sellersville, PA
(Exc Audience mp3@320)

Charlie Starr - Guitar, Vocals
Paul Jackson- Guitar, Vocals
Richard Turner – Bass, Vocals
Brit Turner – Drums
?? - keyboards (I swear I hear keys on this??)

CD1
01 - Like I Am
02 - Testify
03 - I'd Be Lyin'
04 - Bottom of This
05 - Sleeping Dogs Lie /
06 - Midnight Rider
07 - Good One Comin' On
08 - Restless*
09 - Up In Smoke
10 - Everybody Knows She's Mine
11 - Prayer for the Little Man
12 - Freeborn Man
Total Time: 61:47

CD2
01 - Rollin' & Tumblin'
02 - Sanctified Woman
03 - Sunrise in Texas
04 - Son of the Bourbon
05 - Deep Elem Blues
06 - Shake Your Magnolia
07 - Freedom Song
08 - Shotgun Willie
Total Time: 42:27

*check out the cool guitar riffing in the beginning of RESTLESS - sounds like some Humble Pie and Skynyrd in there!!

(corrections welcome if I have anything in the setlist wrong)
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Comments:
I wasn't at this show; I barely even knew who these guys were when they were here and didn't go. I recently read a rave review about their LITTLE BIT OF DIXIE album that put them on my radar.

I picked up that album and everything I read about that album (and this band) is true - this is the BEST new southern rock I've heard since Ronnie Van Zant was still walking around barefoot on stage in the glory days of Lynyrd Skynyrd.

IF YOU LIKE SKYNYRD (real Skynyrd - 70's Skynyrd with Ronnie), IF YOU DIG THE OUTLAWS (R.I.P. Hughie Thomasson), IF YOU'RE INTO EARLY ALLMAN BROTHERS OR THE FIRST COUPLE MOLLY HATCHET ALBUMS, OR HENRY PAUL'S SOLO STUFF, OR JUST GOOD SOUTHERN ROCK WITH GREAT PLAYING, GREAT SONGWRITING, GREAT VOCALS - YOU NEED TO CHECK THESE GUYS OUT!!

This show has some new songs not any of their albums yet, some from their DIXIE album, some from their first album BAD LUCK AIN'T NO CRIME, and some from their countryish EP NEW HONKY TONK BOOTLEGS. It also has some covers -Willie Nelson's SHOTGUN WILLIE, The Outlaws' FREEBORN MAN, and a short excerpt of the Allman's MIDNIGHT RIDER that I tracked out as CD1/track6 (it was thrown in during part of the song that I think is called LET SLEEPING DOGS LIE). 

Although they are small now, just making a name for themselves, opening for bands like Skynyrd, Outlaws, Kid Rock, ZZ TOp, etc, I hope these guys get the success they deserve.They should be HUGE.I just hope they don't get swallowed up by the industry and turned into some kind of souless homogenized country music / American Idol crapola act - I can see that as the easiest way to fame & fortune for them.I'd rather see them make it as a rock band though...so go out and buy their records, go to their shows, tell all your friends about them.They need to be "discovered"!

Special thanks to the Dude for going & taping this show, & loaning me his master DAT to share with y'all.


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Cowboy w/ JR. Mack Live Iridium Jazz Club/ 3/19/11

Just Putting up a show I recently obtained Sorry no setlist But they do a cover of Alex Taylors Southern Kids.... Very worth checking out.


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