Artist The Gourds
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Andy Goodwin
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The Gourds
The Gourds play a disarmingly organic variation on alt-country, a genre that has oddly come to mean “country that sounds like country used to sound.” The group is still best known outside its native Texas as the band behind that (hilarious) bluegrass cover of Snoop Dogg’s “Gin And Juice,” but fans know that’s but a dip in the band’s deep well of droll humor and genre-mashing fun. The 2007 disc Noble Creatures didn’t muck with a winning formula, once again combining twanged-up roots-rock, zydeco, and disarmingly funny lyrics to make rollicking barnstormers such as “Cranky Mulatto.” The band’s 2009 album, Haymaker!, and the new Old Mad Joy feature more of the same.
Updated 10/27/2011
