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What's Happening in Americana: Urban & Western
The Great Crusades are Urabn & Westerners from Champaign, Illinois. A
manly bunch, vocalist Brian Krumm sounds like he'd vault onto a front
porch and wring the neck of any weedy alt country indie-it he encountered.
His voice has veins in its teeth. It's like Tindersticks on steroids or a deeper
Tom Waits. The band's sinewy spag-western country and tough folk-punk
on The First Spilled Drink of the Evening (Trocadero) is a perfect match.
Call miserabilist but a whole album of the title track, a spare, raw country
ballad, would be nice.
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