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Darlins
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country. A New York Times writer apparently couldn’t distinguish between a ukulele and a mandolin.
They do a song called “Talk Dirty to me in Hawaiian” that’s a real hoot, but the rest is actually very rooted in early rock and country - aka “rockabilly.”
They have solid bass line and drum beat, and when you add the vocals - a sort of hardscrabble harmony and soulfjfclness of a cross between Patsy Cline and Lucinda Williams - and the bluesy guitar licks, you’ve got a band with solid roots, but who’ve added their own new twist on things.
Talking to the Darlins before their sets, you wouldn’t get the impression that once on stage, these gals would transform themselves into trash-talking rebels with a bunch of causes in the best of country tradition.
Country singer David Allen Coe would be proud. The only thing missing are pickup trucks and trains.
But this isn’t that kind of country music.
Jessi Darlin (she and Kelley refuse to reveal their real last names), the youngest at 19, is a pixie from Kentucky. There’s none of the attitude when she’s on stage as she talked about musical influences, how the band came together, and the fact that this phenomenon was never more than anything other than having fun playing music. This is just what she likes to do.
When she discovered the Carter Family, “It was like, ‘Wow!’ This is music I can actually play!”
She still had a rock
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