Detail: A while back, The Comet bar's management constructed extra support beams in the basement. Seems that The Blue Rock Boys' music created enough crowd stomping to make the floor suffer. Always a good sign when bands force emergency bar remodeling.
Known for vivacious live shows, The Blue Rock Boys leave drums and electric guitars back home. They prefer natural percussion -- instrument thumping and crowd racket.
With influences ranging from The Dubliners to James Brown, their debut album, Volume I, was engineered by Phil Combs at Cincinnati's Wine Cellar Studios. Including remakes of famous songs such as "Finnegan's Wake," the CD's overall sound rings of traditional Folk, but convention strays when hit by original arrangements, Wood's Punk-sounding vocals, an assertive banjo, grunts, sounds of broken glass and a hard-line bass.
Make no mistake. Physically, The Blue Rock Boys don't appear as stereotypical Folk musicians clad in mountain gear. Rather, touched by planet Punk, strewn with tattoos and piercings, their musical backgrounds are diverse enough to start a slew of bands ranging from Techno to Bluegrass. Poking fun at Folk, Wood says, "Just about every song we play, somebody gets murdered or dies in it. The banjo's not a pretty instrument. It's like a farm animal."
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Folk/Traditional
Punk/Ska
Other
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