The Walcotts - Wonder Ballroom, Portland OR - November 12, 2015



[Los Angeles] This band was hideous – we were all silently suffering, me at least trying not to bring my cousin down by telling him I didn’t know what the hell kind of show he had taken me to. Plus the venue was crazy packed – we at least had escaped the over 21 drinking half of the floor, which was unbearably packed – but it was still packed. So the band was some generic pop rock sound – Flame and Todd#1 kept hearing 90s sounds, stuff like Cherry Poppin Daddies or those swing rock bands – I didn’t hear it but they had the consensus. They were well staffed with all sorts of horns, guitars, drums. The person who really took them down was the crimson-haired, leather-legged woman they plopped in the middle to sex the band up – her singing and gyrations were so rock-star calculated it was painful to watch. They kept telling me the band was from LA but I kept insisting they were one of those producer-formed bands out of Nashville - I don’t know why I was resisting because LA makes plenty of sense too. No Depression’s description of country, soul & R&B sounds about right to me.

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