What's The Story?
This quartet of cool cats are a folk rock unit that you can party to and/or listen to at a family affair. They've got one album out (which can be acquired on the band's site), and another is anticipated. Khaki Dodgers is the fifth track on that first, self-titled album.
Who's To Blame?
The only other ginger in sight at the show last night.
Why ♥ It?
When I think of the folk rock I love the most, it's the ability to enrich a song with more than just a guitar and poetry. Johnny Cash livened his tunes up with some of the best stories you'll hear musically, and bands like Mumford & Sons have a large cast to have a big sound. This song represents a hardworking intersection of those two strategies.
The song tells the story of Hornell's own grandparents and how they met, and of a hockey team in a nearly-dead industrial mining town in Central Newfoundland. The song starts slow and styles almost like a hearthside story, with the guitar-and-poetry already discussed. However, after a verse or so, the rest of the band joins, and as the song rolls along from verse to chorus to verse to chorus, it gets more and more intense. They keep this momentum until, by the end, it's used for a couple breakdowns with mandolin solos and heavily strummed instruments that really put the rock in folk rock.
These guys had a show last night that stated that they weren't breaking up; they were friends with benefits. It's this kind of character that runs through their songs and performances, and it attracts bars full of twenty-somethings routinely whenever they play.
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