Modern Skirts and Bain Mattox in Nashville
I ventured out to the Rutledge last night to see Modern Skirts and Bain Mattox play. The Rutledge is said to have the best sound in the city and I don’t have any reason to disagree. Both groups sounded great.
As always the Skirts put on a great show. All four guys put a lot of energy into every song. It’s hard not to when the songs are just so damned good. I am continually impressed by their songwriting. Since I was standing so close to him last night, I have to point what I really great guitar player Phillip Brantley is. He was doing some pretty cool things during some of the solos and bridges. Nice little tempo and minor key changes. I’m impressed.
I was really happy to see Bain Mattox again as well. Amazingly, this is another solid songwriter who uses some different instrumentation (accordion, banjo, harmonica) to make his mark. The crowd was a little small and low-key. Inexplicably, the Rutledge has tables and chairs where people should be standing and dancing. But Bain put out a lot of effort to get a rise from the crowd. At one point, he was walking through the crowd with his accordion admonishing us to sing along to the chorus of a song about driving people up walls.
A great show from both groups and I really hope that Nashville starts to pay them more attention. Both are definitely on the verge of big things.
Sadly, I couldn’t stick around to listen to The Bridges from Anniston, AL. I caught the first couple of songs and the harmonies were very nice. Certainly not enough time for me to form an opinion but I’d like to check out more of their stuff.
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