[from Nashville, TN] Those Darlins aren’t
so darling anymore – they done went and grew up into proper rock stars and will
probably continue on to implode like real rock stars – these three girls and a
drummer sing deceptively simple and fun sing-along songs about being slightly
trashy and Southern – their music’s actually not so simple though… it’s rooted
in authentic country, honky tonk, Southern rock and even some blues but
performed (especially tonight) with rock ‘n roll and even garage rock swagger and snarl – they
confessed midway through their set that they’d performed and drank beers
earlier in the evening at another Austin venue and it was pretty clear that
they were still feeling the effects – the blonde one with long curls was
slit-eyed and repeating herself – her performance was most affected - the resident
‘bad girl’ with the husky sexy voice eventually spewed beer on the crowd and
bit pumpkin meat from a jack o lantern on the stage and spewed that too – the
smallest one with the short curly black hair and the Janis Joplin maleish voice
had changed the most in appearance (more bold) but was the best behaved – they
opened with an instrumental surf rock song – they sing about getting drunk and
eating a whole chicken, being a “snaggle-toothed mama” in a trailer far away,
and warning her boy that he knew she was wild one all along – they made me
nostalgic for my 20s, when being a wild one was only fun, but then they made me
remember that I’m happy to be in my 30s – I still really like this band but, as
their senior, I am worried for them ;) (Photo courtesy of
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