6/26 Ramshackle Glory, Lincoln County War, Son Drop, and Tim Tapper and the Terribles @ Milhouse

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Has the sizzle-snap hiss of insects dying a humid death in blue-bleakness of a bug zapper have you hankering for a humble hootenanny DIT readers, listeners, watchers, (whatever)? Tomorrow night, at Milhouse, Ramshackle Glory, Lincoln County War, Son Drop, along with Tim Tapper and the Terribles, are planting a raging blue liberty spike atop the cowboy hat of country music.

Ramshackle Glory is a seven-piece punk band out of Tuscon, AZ, formed by Pat the bunny of DIY note. However somewhere along the way to the Midwest, an irate Southern Illinois farmer mugged the group, took their electric guitars, and left them with just enough money for some aging instruments at the local pawnshop. Equipped with  trumpet, banjo, accordion, and piano, Ramshackle Glory’s sound could be cousin to that of Streetlight Manifesto if one were to replace the dramatized ska for working class twang.  Songs such as “More about alcoholism,” lyrics like “Carl Marx in my bedroom alone,” and just plain poetic verses like “lick my dirty balls,” impress a swaggering tone that burns like the end of a bottle of Jim Beam and leaves you just as blearily satisfied.

Lincoln County War, a duo comprised of Benjamin Myers on guitar and Sofia peters on violin, are folks playing folk all about killing folks. Driven, loud, and surprisingly violent, the two have a fiery approach to twiddling fiddling. Tearing up while screaming along to their battered, bumpy, country road of a set will be appropriate.

If the sweating and swearing of the other groups gets listeners grabbing for their heart medication, then Son Drop (sans founder and lead-man James Duke) will lull listeners in with a porch-rocking, foot tapping tone. With slurred up renditions of “Sunshine” and a sound like pickled surf-rock played as heard through a soup can, Son Drop will have listeners staring at the ceiling reminiscing of basements past. While Duke won’t be there, this is the first time these boys have played in over a year, so it will be interesting to see what they pull out of their hats.

Tim Tapper and the Terribles are a three piece group formed around Kalamazoo singer-songerwriter Tim Tapper, with the ever-loving Jarad “Saxsquatch” Selner on drums and poster-extraordinaire Rory Svekric, of the Almanac Shouters, on bass. This three-piece will be something to check out, Tapper promising a more “upbeat, charged up” performance differing from the solo stuff he usually produces.

Show starts at 8 p.m. Don’t trash the house. Bring donations, although the music is free. Hooligans.

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About Z.A. Clark

Is your local, neighborhood English major with too much time on his hands (directly related to the same major), so he bothers the people around him about music, news, and other nonsense. He is a writer for DITKalamazoo, The Index, Kalamazoo Local Music, and has written for Kzoo Music Scene. He is also a co-founder of the no-cost recording group DIT Sessions, where he also manages video editing and video recording. Grief and Grumble. Goodnight and goodluck.

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