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Tallgrass

Rank #1 Iowa City, IA Americana / Dirt Stomping Soul

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Members: Adam Morford- drums/keys/vocals, Austin Morford- bass/guitar/vocals, Matt Skinner- guitar/banjo/bass/harmonica/vocals

Sounds Like: Allman Brothers Band, The Black Keys, Robert Johnson, Dr. John, Gov't Mule

Label: All the good ones

Manager: Pete McCarthy- petemccarthy77@gmail.com

Bio: Raised by wolves, taught by squirrels, enemy of the owl - Tallgrass sings songs of happiness and sorrow. This trio from Iowa City brings gravel road vocals, quick-picked guitar, and a rhythm section with stomping ground sound.

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“We chatted while the first band set up. We drank as they were introduced. We shut up, in awe, when they began to play. While we just wanted to catch up, Sam and I couldn’t seem to pull our attention from the soulful, passionate, outright awesome music that was being produced on stage. The rhythm was guttural, it drove home the pain of my day like only good soul can. This wasn’t some fly-by-night blues band playing old licks and trying to fake ‘feeling’, these guys had it, and it was pure. Their music reminds me of my surroundings… the resolve of the blue-collar, hard workin, tough-life, tough-love, ‘play while you can’ bones and grit of the midwest. It is hard, it is honest, it is gravel in ice, and it brings me home in heart and head.”

— Tony Vanden Bush , raygunsite.com

“With their new release God, Sin, Whiskey, and Women, Iowa City's Tallgrass crafts a refreshing twist on some familiar musical territory. It is a soundtrack of leather saddlebags, a sun-faded cattleman's duster and barbwire slowly taming a wild prairie. Just like the recent remake of the western 3:10 to Yuma, these songs retain enough of the original to keep it in comfortable territory, but offer up enough contemporary flair to make it interesting. I really hope somewhere Johnny Depp is preparing to make a movie for these songs... ...If you're a jaded music lover who is tired of knowing where a song is going before the first chorus is finished, you'll love the subtle musical surprises in this album. The music is just familiar enough to lull you into a practiced enjoyment, then, WHAM, you realize that the stagecoach lurched left where you thought it would turn right, and all the listener can say is "damn".”

— Todd Partridge, No Depression

“What sets Tallgrass apart is hard to put my finger on. They certainly have some of the blues influence picked up from bands like Allman Brothers, but where that band indulges in western-shirt-ripping grandiosity, Tallgrass is more subtle, sly and lateral, more likely to sneak up on you than hit you over the head with wailing guitars. They’re also a band with a peculiarly funky brand of country-folk. The liquid, swinging fluency of Adam Morford’s drumming drives every song without ever dominating the mix. He inverts the traditional balance of the trap set, pounding out patterns mostly on floor toms, using the kick, snare and cymbals for accents and sparse fills. Austin Morford and Matt Skinner’s guitars percolate and mutter in tight counterpoint to the drums. I still hate country music but I think God, Sin, Whiskey and Women points out what’s wrong with it: a lack of imagination. They show what can happen if good musicians take the tradition as a starting point instead of an end”

— Kent Williams, Little Village

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Q: When are you guys performing again and where?!?

A: In the next few weeks, we've got Camp Euforia on Friday the 13 at 4 pm, then on the 20th we're playing a free Friday Night Concert Series show on the ped mall in downtown Iowa City. Or, if you're brave, later that night we're playing at the American Legion in Coralville, where everyone requests Bob Seiger songs all night and we always let them down...

Asked by Chelsea Haney Cashman. Answered on Sat Jul 07 2012

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