With what Neal Pond of American Profile calls "...a salvo of ax-slinging crunch, honky-tonk high spirits and soulful swagger," The Velvet Marias come calling from Richmond, Va. Turning heads with their high-energy shows since 2007, the Velvets' songs of "boozers, losers, lovers, leavers and dreamers bear the stamp of Janis Joplin’s ballsy wallop, the Stones’ randy, rowdy, high-voltage hammering, Merle Haggard’s barroom bruises" and the long, lonesome call of Lucinda Williams' enchanting w...