Video #112 of 1000 – Swank – Down on Hastings. Recorded live at the Princeton Pub on June 22, 2012 in HD (1080p on XA10).
Swank inhabits the lawless borderlands between Americana, Punk and Rock & Roll. It is gospel perverted by hillbillies, soul wearing three-day stubble, punk in a pasture, bluegrass sporting brass knuckles and a chip on its shoulder, folk stinking of car exhaust and a three-day bender, the blues pointing and laughing at existential dread, and country wrought from the rat-infested back alleys on the wrong side of the tracks of as west as one can get…
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Shot by Rod Matheson for EveryDayMusic
Posted with permission of the artists.
