Writing and performing together since 1999, Mississippi's own Buffalo Nickel have taken their unique brand of Honk-N-Roll music from Austin, TX, to New York City. With their 2002 release, UP ON BLOCKS, the band won comparisons to pioneer, country-rock genre-benders like The Byrds, Buck Owens, The Flying Burrito Brothers and REM. Now armed with an arsenal of classic country licks, pedal-steel guitar, distortion pedals, songs about beautiful girls with bad teeth, and lots of harmony, these one time alt-rockers turned alt-country have opened the floodgates on all that is good in American music, with the release of their new album NOISE & CONVERSATION.
Brimming with catchy, radio-ready, hit singles, heartfelt, personal confessions and vivid, barroom narratives this new Buffalo Nickel album delivers a diverse array of songs rich enough for anyone’s ear. The songs range from witty, Townes Van Zandt inspired numbers that sound like classics you missed somewhere along the way to wailing, George Jones style drinking songs that you can‘t help but sing along to; there’s even a stirring, rock anthem that brings the album toward a memorable close with a beautifully reckless guitar solo a’ la Neil Young or J. Mascis. Fellow Mississippians Cary Hudson and Suzy Elkins lend a hand on three songs: “Find Me A Crowd”, “Family Man” and “Can’t Say Anything,” while the last song, “Emmaline,” is an elegy to founding member Emily Graham, who wrote four of the 15 songs on the album and to wh.....
