Noah Bonaparte Pais just did a really nice, well thought-out piece on us in this week’s Gambit, check it out:
The Dirty Bourbon River Show honed its sound and repertoire at a weekly gig at the Howlin' Wolf.
Only a band as genetically theatrical as the Dirty Bourbon River Show could subdivide a 30-minute EP into a three-act affair. In July, the New Orleans ensemble issued Free Love, its second self-released record this year, as merch-table fodder and an appetite-whetting intermezzo between Vol. 1, its February debut, and Vol. 2, due in spring 2011. But the platter took on a life of its own: a triple-gatefold, snow-globe carnival whose little big top houses three different introductions and even more personalities, segueing seamlessly from kazoo- and clarinet-blown circus shenanigans to smooth-croon lounge, and finely fingered folk ballads to banjo hoedowns, jazzy sax solos and staccato piano jams…
Read the full article here: www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/working-the-strip
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