Rocket To Des Moines Louisville, Kentucky
Acoustic, ballad-driven but amplified, all keyed-up and a little unsettled, still stewing over the last heartbreak but getting over it. This is good drinking music, folks. There are raucous assaults of pure delicious hedonism and release followed by more restrained moments, evoking classic themes of fragile relationships and unhappy endings, wistfully, but without a trace of self-indulgence. ... more
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