Banditos envision new release
Monday, March 13, 2017 – Banditos announced today its second disc, "Visionland," will be out
June 23 on Bloodshot.
Israel Nash and Ted Young produced the Birmingham/Nashville-based group's second full-length. "Fine Fine Day" is the first single from the release. The group includes guitarist Jeff Salter, singer Mary Beth Richardson, singer/guitarist Corey Parsons, drummer Randy Wade, banjo/vocalist Stephen Pierce and bassist Danny Vines.
The members of Banditos first met playing in various punk and rock projects around Birmingham, Ala. at D.I.Y., all-ages venues. In 2010, Parsons and Pierce began busking around town and were soon asked to perform at their favorite local bar. Without a full band they invited friends Randy Wade, Salter, and Richardson to join them. Vines joined the band later.
CD reviews for Banditos
Over the years, country music has proven to be a complementary peanut butter to the chocolate provided by other genres. Rockabilly, country rock, Americana, alt.-country, cowpunk, whatever it was the Grateful Dead did with it; it don't mean a thang if it ain't got that twang. Nashville-based Banditos has a firm grasp on its country roots, given the band's collective Alabama childhoods, but they've got deep and equal love for a variety of other potent musical styles as well and ...
It takes a certain raw instinct to make music that's as unhinged and unruly as that purveyed by Banditos. Originally from Alabama and now ensconced in Nashville, this scruffy looking bunch of 20-somethings makes a sound that's wholly raw, raucous and unrefined, a perfect anecdote to the polite, plaintive melodies that defines much of what's typecast as Americana these days.
That said, Banditos take their cue from any number precedents - the Southern swagger of Lynyrd Skynrd, the ...
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