It is fair to say that authenticity oozes from every sonic pore of The Rosie Daze Band. Following in the footsteps of the lives of Buffalo Gals, Alison Krauss and, of course, Dixie Chicks, Nobody Here But Us is timeless music for the modern age, nostalgia soaked, purposely unpolished and perfectly delivered.
Nine great songs that are built on the raw sound of folk instruments, the instruments that follow the movements of mankind across the western hemisphere and link together the history of music, whether you are playing Italian folk tunes on a mandolin, drawing English pastoral songs out of a violin or, like here, keeping the sound of the Appalacian’s alive.
“Keep It Clean” kicks things off and sets the tone perfectly, a song that lilts, rolls, and bounces along, daring you not to start moving your feet. By the time the next song, “Poor Billy,” is jangling along and those heavenly harmonies are working their magic, you will be.
“So Lonely” is the sound of the banjo and fiddle making music as only that combination can, a song around which you can see the musicians and dancers of the past being conjured up to join in, the spirit of players from the decades long gone, centuries even, raised to join the throng. Now, the gang is all here. “Cluck of Hen” is the sound of time falling away, and all those eras are becoming one and the same. A timeless sonic ritual, dance music of the ages.
It’s the sort of music that will make all those kids learning to play the banjo or struggling to get a palatable sound out of the fiddle, all those instruments that others might tell them are uncool, suddenly feel like potential rock stars. How great is that?
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