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Frog Holler | Idiots

This one will never grow old and bitter.
CD, Record Cellar

Tekst: Maurice Dielemans

Publicatiedatum: 21 januari 2002

Frog Holler are based around singer-songwriter, left-handed acoustic guitarist Darren Schlappich, guitarist John Kilgore, and bass guitarist Josh Sceurman from the rural side of Pennsylvania, with Toby Martin on drums, Mike Lavdanksi, Ted Fenstermacher, and Todd Bartolo on banjo, mandolins, fiddles, backing vocals, lap-steel guitar, and everything else. Upon first listen, Frog Holler's bluegrass-styled Americana comes across as an unplugged reincarnation of alternative country pioneers Uncle Tupelo, with singer Darren Schlappich in the leading role of a depressed and half-drunk Jay Farrar. Admittedly, you've heard their songs before. Both lyrically and musically, Frog Holler reinvent classic themes in American music, absolutely true to the American country spirit. If you like this kind of alternative country music, you'll probably never get bored with this godfearing white man's blues, raising such heartfelt themes as loneliness, homesickness, drinking beer, thanking God on your knees for being a country boy, and every sort of smalltown problem. Well, it seems that inspiration comes from many sources, especially these little, precious things in life that are hard to describe. Starting out as a traditional bluegrass band, Frog Holler's music slowly grew into a more alternative and anarchistic kind of roots music, but luckily they didn't sell their hillbilly soul to the devil. Some of the Frog Holler tunes are catchy as hell, and before you know it you are humming every song on their album 'Idiots', especially such memorable tunes as 'Happy Hour', 'Pennsylvania', 'Who Will?', and the missing title track from their previous album, 'Adams Hotel Road'. Play another song, boys. This one will never grow old and bitter!

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