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Country Muscle is here to squeeze the life out of you.
Get on the muscle bus, and learn to love this practically unknown band. Country Muscle just wrapped their first show last wednesday, and i ALMOST remembered to go!!
But i do know the band, and when i asked guitarist Ron Ascoli if they were anything like Rockabilly music, he was quick to reassure me that they had NOTHING TO DO with that crapola. So i went to their myspace page, and laughed my ass off.
Not sure how to label these dinks, but i guess you could call them stoner-rock/stoner-punk/stoner-country....
and if that makes any sense to you, GOB BLESS YA.
we need to stop kissing the asses of well known acts, and support local home-grown heroes that are willing to be themselves at all costs.
visit their page, download their free songs, and blast it when your ipod's shuffle feature accidentally lands on it.
photo borrowed from Country Muscle's myspace page
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