The Windmill presents:
Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires, The Little Horn, Dexy
Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires
Entry Requirements: 18+
LEE BAINS III & THE GLORY FIRES (Birmingham, Alabama)
With albums released on Don Giovanni and Sub Pop, Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires play Alabama rock 'n' roll - careening, road raging, all night party music with a distinctly southern hoodoo.
Having cut his teeth as a touring member of Alabama heroes Dexateens, Bains formed his own band steeped in Muscle Shoals soul , punk swagger and heavy riffage. Coupled with intelligent lyrics that smash through the fables of Reconstruction.
Current 17-song double album "Detention///(Nail My Feet Down to the South Side of Town)' on Don Giovanni delivers a sprawling and visceral record given to both deep introspection and high-volume spiritual uplift.
Recorded in Nashville with producer Tim Kerr, "Youth Detention" captures the band in raw form. Each song was cut live to tape, with the four performing in the same room without headphones or baffling. The result is thoroughly human, retaining the band’s live energy and looseness at the expense of a few out of tune strings.
The Glory Fires’ music draws deeply from punk, but also soul, power pop, country, and gospel. It’s equal parts careful curation and geographic inheritance. The songs are deeply rooted in Bains’ experience of his hometown, Birmingham, AL. Youth Detention depicts a Southern city in the decades surrounding the turn-of-the-millennium: in the throes of white flight, urban disinvestment, racial tension, class struggle, gentrification, gender policing, homophobia, xenophobia, religious fervor, deindustrialization, and economic upheaval.
“A radical, literate update of Southern rock.” - UNCUT
THE LITTLE HORN
https://www.facebook.com/thelittlehornmusic/
DEXY
Country punk from south London. Debut album Tear It Down out now on 3 Minute Records. Available on Spotify, iTunes, Bandcamp, Amazon & more.
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Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires
With albums released on Don Giovanni and Sub Pop, Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires play Alabama rock 'n' roll - careening, road raging, all night party music with a distinctly southern hoodoo.
Having cut his teeth as a touring member of Alabama heroes Dexateens, Bains formed his own band steeped in Muscle Shoals soul , punk swagger and heavy riffage. Coupled with intelligent lyrics that smash through the fables of Reconstruction.
Current 17-song double album "Detention///(Nail My Feet Down to the South Side of Town)' on Don Giovanni delivers a sprawling and visceral record given to both deep introspection and high-volume spiritual uplift.
Recorded in Nashville with producer Tim Kerr, "Youth Detention" captures the band in raw form. Each song was cut live to tape, with the four performing in the same room without headphones or baffling. The result is thoroughly human, retaining the band’s live energy and looseness at the expense of a few out of tune strings.
The Glory Fires’ music draws deeply from punk, but also soul, power pop, country, and gospel. It’s equal parts careful curation and geographic inheritance. The songs are deeply rooted in Bains’ experience of his hometown, Birmingham, AL. Youth Detention depicts a Southern city in the decades surrounding the turn-of-the-millennium: in the throes of white flight, urban disinvestment, racial tension, class struggle, gentrification, gender policing, homophobia, xenophobia, religious fervor, deindustrialization, and economic upheaval.
“A radical, literate update of Southern rock.” - UNCUT
