Can’t-Miss: Devil Makes Three and The Dirt Daubers at Exit/In 7-23-11
by Dave Sharp on Jul 22nd, 2011
The Devil Makes Three will be playing with The Dirt Daubers at Exit/In in Saturday 7-23-11
The Dirt Daubers are opening up this show and I had the privilege of writing this on the shirtless, crotch-grabbing, harmonic high of just seeing the Legendary Shack Shakers. Yes, you’ve finally found a show where the energy expected from the headlining band is perfectly primed from the opening artist. J.D. Wilkes, the southern-documentary-making, seemingly epileptic and all-around legendary front-man of the Legendary Shack Shakers will back up out of your face, but keep the music momentum by leading the Dirt Daubers with his wife and fellow Shack Shaker, Mark Robertson.
Because of that, around 9:30 p.m., the buzz will be floating high and prepped for The Devil Makes Three.
“I expect that it will be our best show in Nashville to date,” said guitarist Pete Bernhard about taking their Nor-Cal/Appalachian sound to Nashville’s Exit/In.
“We are honored to be playing where so many great artist have come out of and so many great songs have been written,” he added.
It’s always fun when Northern California (a relatively revered place for bluegrass innovate; see Old Man Markley) bring the sound down home to the territory of Bill Monroe and his Kentucky and Tennessee contemporaries.
I’m especially intrigued by The Devil Makes Three because they take two never-perpendicular genres, blue grass and punk rock, and create a sound that moves your body, taps your feet and creates the potential for an incredibly weird mosh pit. Bernhard and Cooper McBean laid the foundation for DM3 and both cut their music chops on punk rock.
“We both played in punk bands when we were in our teens and early twenties,” said Benhard. “It would be safe to say that none of our bands were very good but we both had fun. It involved lots of drinking and not much practice and has made for some good song writing material.”
There are few appealing conversions of such wide-ranging sounds, but DM3 will appease fans from the black, white and gray and Nashville is the ideal melting pot to watching the fusion. Don’t miss it.
And, no, they won’t be hitting up the Jack Daniel’s Distillery (see “Old #7”…)