Burren Backroom Series: Girls Guns and Glory
When:
Thursday, Mar 23, 2017 7:00p -
9:00p
Thursday, Mar 23, 2017 7:00p -
9:00p
Where:
The Burren
247 Elm St
Somerville, MA 02144
Admission:
$12-16
Categories:
Date Idea, Music
Event website:
https://tickets.burren.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=139
6 pm doors with WUMB broadcasting LIVE from The Burren Backroom
One of Rolling Stone’s “10 New Artists You Need To Know” – “Modern-day Buddy Holly plus Dwight Yoakam divided by the Mavericks…Think-y, soulful lyrics paired with a beat you can dance to.” —ROLLING STONE
Love and Protest: two concepts that seldom go hand in hand. Until you think about it a while.
That’s what singer, guitarist and songwriter Ward Hayden did as he began mapping out plans for Girls Guns & Glory’s next album, which happens to be called Love and Protest.
“That title sums up this album and it sums me up very well too,” he says. “We’ve done 10 years of touring, living, learning and growing, maturing and developing a broader world view, a view outside of the small town where I grew up.”
That decade began with Hayden and several like-minded musicians getting together. Their love for early rock ’n’ roll, true country, raw blues and pretty much any kind of authentic American music branded them quickly as anomalous — and electrifying. Since that time they’ve barnstormed far beyond their Boston hometown, playing honky-tonks, beer joints and more recently concert venues throughout the U.S. They’ve amassed a loyal legion of fans along the way. The media have noticed too, including Rolling Stone, which heralds them as a “modern-day Buddy Holly plus Dwight Yoakam divided by the Mavericks.”
Now, in this milestone year, with Girls Guns & Glory recording for the first time on its own label, the group has channeled all it’s experienced into its most personal and, paradoxically, hardest-rocking release to date.
www.girlsgunsandglory.com
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