Yep Roc
Yep Roc continues to bring the best of country lovin’ to light with the release of The Gourds’ finest recording to date. Lyrical storytelling does a harvest reel with fiddle and guitar tunes that have as much in common with rock ’n’ roll as its rural cousin. Bucking the novelty tag that’s dogged them since their cover of Snoop Dogg’s “Gin and Juice” caught the public ear The Gourds brand each of Haymaker!’s 14 straight-up cuts with their signature brand of blue ribbon showmanship and humour. Spicy Tex-mex beats flavoured with an extra punk-rock kick add life and levity to “Luddite” “All the Way to Jericho” and the town-skippin’ “Shreveport” in which they sing “Roaches in the ashes/ A truck jammin’ ‘Limelight’/ Look like it’s gonna be/ Just me and Geddy Lee tonight.” From the freshly scrubbed sweet-potato innocence of opener “Country Love” to the washtub-bass-propelled frenzy of “The Way You Can Get” Haymaker! reveals a world of possibilities when it comes to traversing the floorboards.
