Artist The Felice Brothers

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Todd Rawson

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The Felice Brothers

The Felice Brothers traffic in the kind of backwoods-barn mythology that has held a lot of sway in rock for ages. Their dusty Catskill Mountains ruminations sound as weighty and weathered as a warped old 78, resulting in a new rub on rousing barroom songs about broken hearts and bottles shored up by timely front-porch sing-alongs. Their newest, the recent Yonder Is The Clock, certainly sounds like it was recorded decades ago, were it not for so much electric guitar scrambling around the mix: There’s a song about a train station (“Penn Station”), two songs about chickens (“Chicken Wire,” “Run Chicken Run”), and another entirely about a contagious illness (“Memphis Flu”), but it all feels sepia-toned.

Updated 05/20/2009