Thursday, July 19, 2007

The Best Band You've Never Heard Of

The One band we saw three times while we were in Tennessee were the incomparable Dempseys. I've really never seen anything like them, a three piece band of jaw-dropping musical skill. You'll probably have already seen them without knowing as they featured heavily in the Johnny Cash biopic Walk The Line. Their repertoire focused on early rock n' roll and country (why not?) and their guitar player, Bradley Dean Birkedahl, might be the greatest I've ever seen close up. His medley of the styles of all his favourite guitar players has to be heard to be believed. Joe n' Ron on the bass and drums aren't too shabby either. If these guys ever tour Europe, people won't know what hit them.

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