After two years away from the studio playing festivals and shows
around the world, The Dustbowl Revival is sharing its first two
tracks from their forthcoming new record. Busted b/w Only One available
as a limited edition 7-inch and via all digital retailers via Signature
Sounds.
Produced by Grammy award-winner and Flogging Molly co-founder Ted
Hutt (Old Crow Medicine Show, Gaslight Anthem, Dropkick Murphys), the
new sounds signal a striking departure from their fun-loving, raucous old-time
past and has the band mixing their unique eight piece instrumentation into
realms of hard soul, funk and the emotional, introspective folk reminiscent of Fleetwood
Mac, Paul Simon and Aretha Franklin's harmony-drenched 70s
output.
The A-side is the soulful "Busted", which flexes
the band's more modern instrumental evolution, using traditional folk
instruments like mandolin, upright bass and fiddle and putting them through
wah-peddles and gorgeous reverb while letting the brass section set the heat to
boil. The mandolin is almost reminiscent of a Hip-Hop inspired piano beat, the
fiddle darkly slashes its way through the open spaces, while Liz Beebe's
emotive and searing vocals reveal the snake who did her wrong...and just what
she is plans to do about it.
Over the last few years Dustbowl has become known for their
free-flowing and joyous live shows, combining their funk rhythm and brass
section with a fast-picking stringband section - opening for bands as diverse
as Lake Street Dive, Trombone Shorty and The Preservation Hall Jazz Band,
touring China as a guest of the state department and headlining festivals like
Delfest, Floydfest, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, and recently Bergenfest (Norway)
and Tonderfest (Denmark).
While bluegrass, gospel, New Orleans swing and blues were what
brought the gang together, after touring over two hundred dates a year for the
last four years, the band realized as it began to collaborate more on the road,
that it was never content to be a throwback band recreating lost eras. When
they recorded Busted it was like a door opening. As they charge into 2017,
Dustbowl is ready to bring their new sound - more emotional, experimental and
bolder than ever - to a bigger audience.
The group toured Europe this summer and hits the midwest and
southwest this fall before heading back into the studio to finish the new
record, due out in spring of 2017.
