I don’t know if it’s because I’ve been in radio so long…seen so many great shows…heard so many great bands - but it seems to be getting harder and harder to find bands/music that really excite/s me. With the exception of Silvertide (a great band from Philly you’ve probably never heard of…), and their phenomenal CD “Show and Tell”, it’s been years since I’ve found an album that I can listen to all the way through…over and over. Well, the drought is over. The band is The Parlor Mob, and the CD is “And You Were A Crow”. The album is over a year old, and I’m amazed I didn’t hear a single song from the album on any local “new music” station. As a matter of fact, if it weren’t for TV, I would have missed this one altogether…
Laying on the couch Sunday night, I was sitting through the latest episode in what looks to be a lame season of Entourage. The show was over <yawn>, and I was getting up to fix a snack when I heard THIS INCREDIBLE SONG playing over the credits. Was that a young Robert Plant? Was that an old Zeppelin song I’d never heard? No…but, but it sure sounded like Zeppelin might have sounded if Bobby and Jimmy were 22 today. Of course, they don’t list the music on the credits, so I had to dig, and dig, and dig to come up with the artist and the song. Finally, I found it. The song was “Can’t Keep No Good Boy Down”, and the band was…you guessed it! The Parlor Mob…a bunch of kids from Jersey. I picked up the album, thinking If it only had that ONE song on it, it was worth a few bucks. But as it turns out, the whole thing is pretty damn good. No. Really damn good. Zep meets AC/DC meets Blind Melon. If you get a chance, check out “Can’t Keep…”, “Everything You’re Breathing For”, or “Tide of Tears”. Those songs give me the same chills I got when I first heard Zeppelin 3. Really.
Check out an acoustic version of “Everything You’re Breathing For”
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