It's tough to be sincere in music these days. Too far to one side and you're wearing eyeliner and singing about the angel who broke your heart, too far to the other and you're an insufferable wiseass. If you can take the good with the bad and do your best to tell the truth in your music, you're on your way to being an honest band.

Nashville's The Redding Shift is an honest band.

They are four guys who all came from somewhere else because they loved rock and roll: warts a...