Promised land or bust

"Aaron Moreland and Dustin Arbuckle have been making consistently strong records for over a decade now. Influenced as much by the hill country sounds of Junior Kimbrough as the dirt floor inflections of Gov't Mule and early Black Keys, the band has created a stubbornly idiosyncratic musical blend that defies easy categorization. It has the grit and history of blues, replete with murder ballads, open tunings, slides, mouth harp, and a predilection for compositional forms that walk hand-in-hand with that most American idiom".

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"Here, roots inspirations of Mississippi Delta and Hill Country blues are re-examined and reaffirmed as central to their mix with electric roadhouse boogie and heartland hard rock. What really sets this band apart from virtually every modern blues act is that their energy, rawness, and virtuosic instrumental skill are matched by their songwriting ... The beauty on Promised Land or Bust is that M&A approach the spiritual and carnal as inseparable, bound together in their rowdy, soulful, infectious sound; it's all killer, no filler".

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