The Bourbonites with Hondo II and Poland

The Bourbonites

The Bourbonites.. don't look for a niche or offer smoke-and-mirrors definitions: They play rock and think country. Or vice versa; the formula gets inverted, but the ingredients stay the same. If there's any alt left in alt-country (whatever that means), it's getting pretty blurred by now, but the Bourbonites aren't trying to be an alternative to anything; they just want to burn down the stage and get someone to pick up their bar tab. Vocalist and songwriter Calvin Todd Stephens
rolls up years of experience in punk and garage bands, and ties it to a songwriting sensibility that runs from Television and Elvis Costello to the Allman Brothers, the Burrito Brothers, the Louvin Brothers, the Everly Brothers...pretty much anybody's brother. The common ground isn't tied to genre, but rather to a love of good songwriting, shoot-from-the-hip musicianship, and the real roots of American music.

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