You can keep your Carrie Underwoods, your Taylor Swifts, your Jewels and your Jessica Simpsons…I’ll take a beer and another song by Michigan’s Rachel Brooke.

Rachelle Brooke Covering Hank William’s Old Log Train

Motor City’s Deadstring Brothers have scored themselves a
place on the bill with Shooter Jennings on part of their
upcoming Fall tour. The Sticky-Fingers influenced roots-rockers are currently on tour in the UK and will begin a trek through the US in mid October in support of their current Bloodshot release “Starving Weather Report.” The Brothers will join Bloodshot brethren Scott H. Biram, The Meat Purveyors and more at the Bloodshot Records / CMJ Bar-B-Que on Saturday, November 4th at Union Pool in Brooklyn.  

more Deadstring Dates:

Sat 9/30    London            UK     The Borderline

Sun 10/01   Bristol           UK     The Promenade

Tue 10/03   Swansea           UK     The Chattery

Wed 10/04   Sheffield         UK     The Boardwalk

Thu 10/05   Hull              UK     The Adelphi

Fri 10/06   Darvel, Scotland  UK     Darvel Music Festival

Sat 10/07   Wolvehampton      UK     The Little Civic

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PopMatters has a good article on Casey Kessel, a Nashville DIY country singer/songwriter with warmth, passion and humor in her songs and backed by a steller band on her self-financed debut “Ripple In The Water.” Check her out!