One look at the album art for Jimbo Mathus’ latest Band of Storms [due May 6th on Big Legal Mess], and you can be certain you’re about to press play on a whirlwind of creativity. Starting off with the rollicking horn-laden “Gringo Man,” Band of Storms is full of swanky attitude and swagger in a rapid fire energetic ride from the honky tonkin’ piano vibe of “Can’t Get Much Higher” to the Replacements style rocker “Massive Confusion” and the boldness in the Cash-esque “Let’s Play With Fire.” Also included on the nine song set is the string-filled Southern Gothic ballad, “Stop Your Crying,” the Emmylou Harris inspired (with a hint of the blues) “Wayward Wind” and the tender “Slow Down Sun” on which he calls upon nature to be kind to his love. The musical layers of “Keep It Together” and the picking of the mandolin in the foot stomper “Catahoula” round out a project that at twenty-three minutes, rolls in like a summer storm, intense and brief and - as Mathus says in the opening number - just “so cool baby.”
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