Never Been Mogged - Roppongi's Ace
Gritty, bluesy, rock and roll with a tinge of country. That's what you get with these guys- and that's just fine with me. I'm liking this self produced CD. Click the cover to hear some more, especially, "So It Goes".
Roppongi's Ace grew their sound out of the cooped-up, slow-burning Tampa Bay music scene. They cut their teeth on the Ybor City bar circuit, opening for Dr. Dog, Voxtrot, the Black Diamond Heavies, Earl Greyhound, the Six Parts Seven, Will Quinlan, and Have Gun, Will Travel. Their many twang-heavy contemporaries in the scene weighed upon the Ace's fuzzed out garage sound, and Alex's stints playing fiddle and mandolin with the likes of Wil Quinlan, Ronny Elliot, and Toby Bonar brought Roppongi's Ace into the fold of Tampa's burgeoning Americana scene. The band developed its heavy, fuzzy, loud-as-all-hell garage sound through the lens of the Tampa twang, and this growth process is what originally led Into the Night.
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Comments (4)
that tune works!
wow, i'm really liking these guys. how did you discover them? tampa, fl seems cool for this kind of music...
p.s. i really, really love their version of "colours". donovan should be proud.
cheezfries- I go blog diggin' and come up with all sorts of good finds! Then I look for links to share full album streams or playlists so people can enjoy more of them. Also, have have Rhapsody, so I discover a lot of groups just digging around in their library.
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