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Bluesy, boozy rock coming to RIBCO
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By Jonathan Turner, jturner@qconline.com
By Jonathan Turner, jturner@qconline.com
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The acclaimed Detroit-based rock band Deadstring Brothers will play at Rock Island Brewing Company, 1815 2nd Ave., at 9:30 p.m. Saturday. Cover charge will be $5. The band's most recent CD, 2010's "Sao Paulo," drew much praise and coverage, with Maverick (UK) calling it "real whiskey-soaked rocking country/blues music," and "heart-wrenching, bulldozing, guitar-laden, in-your-face country-rock." The Chicago Reader said the album is filled with "flinty, soulful performances that bring infectious vitality to bluesy rockers and boozy honky-tonk." And the Nashville Scene stated: "On their newest, 'Sao Paulo,' specifically 'Houston' and 'The River Song,' singer-guitarist Kurt Marschke spurs the band to an uncanny approximation of the Stones in their raunchy '70s prime, while expanding their sound to encompass space-transmission blues and woozy, heartsick country balladry. Recommended to anyone who's ever worn out a cassette copy of 'Let It Bleed.'" CMT has said: "Trying to make up its mind between gritty and defiant or sweet and sentimental, this is what a city in free fall — like Detroit was last year — sounds like." And the Detroit Free Press said the band's "organic, just-raggedy rock is smartly conceived and sublimely executed, a hearty sound that recalls gritty British rock of the early '70s." Deadstring Brothers' CD "Silver Mountain" was named one of the best Records of 2007 by American Songwriter. For more information, visit bloodshotrecords.com/artist/deadstring-brothers. 
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