21st century American heritage!
WAT?
De naam 'says it all'!
VOOR FANS VAN
Bruce Springsteen, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Woodie Guthrie, Chuck Berry, John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, The Secret Sisters...
DE PERS?
UNCUT 8/10: 'The LA-based musicians draw on early rock’n’roll for their sound and songs, looking wicked-cool while they’re at it. The whiskey-soaked rockers and gritty ballads of their debut LP roil with hell-bent immediacy, as frontman Patrick Ferris straddles primal ferocity and haunted vulnerability.'
GREIL MARCUS / PITCHFORK: 'From the first rolling guitar notes, carrying sadness and defiance like dust, this sweeps me up... The Americans are four guys from Los Angeles... This is a tale, somehow steeped in the past, a story that retraces the history of the once ever-advancing, then ever-retreating frontier every time it’s told, that lives up to their name.”
EN DE HEER T BONE BURNETT: 'Genius twenty-first century musicians that are reinventing American heritage music for this century. And it sounds even better this century.'
FUN FACT?
NO DEPRESSION: 'Guitarist Patrick Ferris, looking like James Dean but even better...'