THE DIRTY GUV'NAHS BRING THEIR "RURAL ROCK SHOW" TO WEBSTER HALL

Being a live music fan living in a city like New York is great, because you know every artist that is on a tour of some sort is going to be stopping here at one point. Going to high school and college out in Ohio, I didn’t always have that luxury. So when the ears begin to get a little tired from the oversaturation of Brooklyn hipster rock, it’s great when a band like The Dirty Guv’nahs stop in town to bring to some rural rock ring to help clear out the Williamsburg wannabes for an evening.

Hailing from Knoxville, the pop-friendly southern rock band brought their signature Tennessee sound to Webster Hall to throw a party for those Midwest and southern NYC transplants to enjoy. It’s that signature sound that helps them fit right into that emerging southern rock sound that’s slowly beginning to make it’s mark in pop music today.

Sounding like a more modern coming of the Black Crowes, The Guv’nahs bring a fantastically energetic set made up meat and potatoes rock and roll guitar solos, some organ and keys filled with southern soul, slide guitars, and smooth yet powerful vocals by frontman James Trimble. It’s more than just their live sound that got the audience going full throttle right along with the band, it’s their ability to perform and make each song get up and dance, rather than be played for the hundredth time.

Currently on tour in support of their 2014 album Hearts of Fire, the band that’s been voted ‘Best Band in Knoxville’ four straight years didn’t disappoint as they tore through sounds off the new album as well as some fan favorites from Somewhere Beneath Southern Skies and Youth Is In Our Blood. Their energetic storytelling was on point all night through their hour and a half set and kept the audience going full tilt until their last few encore songs and into the later hours of the night.

Article by: Tom Shackleford

Photos by: Jenna Pinch