Rambunctious Southern Rockers Hogjaw recently lifted the lid on a new video and single, ‘Way Down Yonder,' the title track of their latest album.
The band followed that by re-releasing their 2015 album, ‘Rise To The Mountains’ and now they have swapped their Stateside home for these shores for a bit, as they play their first ever headline UK tour. That’s a whole lotta Hogjaw to engage with - and you can do it in Milton Keynes this week.
The band will be live at The Craufurd Arms on Thursday (October 11).
“Hard-hitting southern fried electric rock” is how they define their sound, although their influences are drawn from a deeper well: imagine Free, early Rainbow and Whitesnake, marinaded in Blackfoot and The Allman Brothers, then steeped in moonshine. Solid Southern blues-rock.
Oh, and beards!
Hogjaw’s video to support ‘Way Down Yonder’s supernaturally-themed title track and single is filled with the kind of energy and oomph that only big men with attitude plus an aversion to razors can truly provide.
Bluesdoodles captured the heart and soul of the track thus: “‘Way Down Yonder’ has a riff which… is a southern fried gumbo of Rainbow’s ‘Sixteenth Century Greensleeves’.
This should mean it is wrong but, even with the spoken word section sounding like Johnny Cash, and then an a capella hand-clap bit, somehow this is still a great song”.
Give them your Thursday evening and they will give you bristles and Southern fired finesse!
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