If not, shame on you, these guys are fabulous! Make plans to see them on Wednesday, November 7th at Cafe Nine in New Haven (an event I may have played a very small part to make happen). Here is another in a long line of positive reviews for their new Call Me Sylvia album:
The US-based band work as hard as they live, and are bringing non-believers back to the grand old church built by Jerry Lee, Johnny Cash, Little Richard and The Stones...
Low Cut Connie are rock and roll roughnecks with the devil in the fingertips and the world at their feet. Their songs concern the finer things in life- women, the pursuit of pleasure, women- and they are currently blazing a rum-soaked trail across the U.S in support of their second album, Call Me Sylvia.
Entirely self-funded and financed, they’ve been garnering support from up on high with Dave Marsh-the legendary Rolling Stone critic- declaring them ‘one of the most important American bands to come along in years.’ Two days after I spoke to them they were also due to open for The Shins at Third Man Records, the Nashville label owned by Jack White, and a listen to their new record reveal Marsh and White to be men of impeccable taste: The album is 15 songs of sweaty bar-room boogie that draws influence from the snappiest-dressed names in the biz; Jerry Lee, Johnny Cash, The Stones and just about everyone else you can think of that’ll make you dance, cry and grab the girl in the red dress.
The band are made up of Adam Weiner and Dan Finnemore, two men who have put necks and balls on the line to run away with the circus. Weiner has played every dive bar across the East Coast and most of the ones on the West (not to mention quite a few in Europe) under his previous guise Lady Fingers. Finnemore hails from Birmingham (UK) and has been playing in a succession of the finest rock and roll scuzz bands you might have heard of but probably haven’t, including Swampmeat and Castilians. (Read More)
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