By Monk
Unless you’ve been hiding under a bush for the past decade or so, you should know that Sons Of Liberty play southern rock. And that’s rock from southern England. Pure and simple, no bones about it, that’s what they do, as this self-released third album once again defiantly proves.
Stomping their collective feet with more impact than a child throwing a tantrum in the sweetie aisle, SOL deliver 11 tracks of booze-fuelled and soaked country-infused blues rock that shows that their creative well is far from dry, but rather that they are definitely still lighting the fuse under our collective rock ‘n’ roll arses.
From the opening bars of the ebullient ‘Time To Fly’, the Sons walk us along a journey that visits the classic country lanes of the Carolinas, the deep swamps of the bayou, the bluegrass-covered hills of Dakota and the southern back alley of Georgia and Alabama, all while perched atop the white cliffs of Dover, sipping on some fine Somerset cider while rocking themselves into the sunset.
Drawing on influences such as Kansas and Molly Hatchet in particular as much as they do the NWoCR movement, Sons Of Liberty manage to combine traditional southern rock dynamics with modern day pop sensibilities which means that they appeal as much to the old-school cowboy hat wearers as much as they do to the new generation spandex-clad scarf wavers. And that is no mean feat in itself.
- ‘The Detail Is In The Devil‘ is released today (Friday 23 February).
- Sons Of Liberty tour next month:
- They then head back out on the road for three dates with Preacher Stone in July:
- Sons Of Liberty round off the year with another run of dates in October, with special guest Kit Trigg:
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