Date(s): 17th August 2010

Time: 19:30

Venue: The Green Room

Turns out that the Pacific Northwest is a bubbling cauldron of activity in the folk music world. Leading this vibrant community of square dancers and bluegrass fanatics, The Water Tower Bucket Boys have a unique vision of traditional music in a brand-new century. They know the roots of the music inside and out and have stayed up through many an all-night back-porch picking party playing tunes until dawn. This is mighty refreshing in a world full of indie bands picking up banjos and ukuleles to evoke some rustic authenticity. These boys actually play and understand the music. Read more int he full article..

But don’t forget that they’ve been raised on raging punk music just as much as Tommy Jarrell, and half the band are pursuing jazz degrees in university. Put that together with the wanderlust of youth that has carried them throughout Europe and across the US, and you get their wildly eclectic, borderline-ADD vision of folk music dominated as much by internet memes and YouTube mash-ups as old 78 recordings and toothless fiddle masters.

The Boys just completed their third album, Sole Kitchen, recorded and produced by Mike Herrera of Tumbledown and MxPx. Sole Kitchen features 100% original songs and tunes, all drawn from the band's travels through the West Coast and Europe, busking on street corners, playing festivals and jamming with everyone they met. Songs like ‘Fromage’ and ‘Telegraph’ show off The Water Tower Bucket Boys' wholly original version of psychedelic traditional music (psych-trad), while instrumental tunes like ‘London Breakdown’ and ‘Blackbird Pickin' at a Squirrel’ show just how fast and hard The Boys can play. But this is a band whose feet are firmly planted in the topsoil of American roots music, and they can just as easily write a song like ‘Heaven’ that sounds like an old Bill Monroe spiritual, complete with traditional harmonies. This is what makes the music of the Water Tower Bucket Boys so refreshing: their roots in the music run deep enough for their new tunes and songs to have real meaning and real vision. It’s a vision of folk music in the 21st century, a vision that carries the same credo that folk has always carried: real music for real people.

For full tour details check the boys MySpace site