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Maybe it was the beer.  Or maybe it was the brown-haired girl in the white summer dress.  Glossary had been a disappointment with their out of tune guitars, muddy vocals and nonexistant keyboards.  But then The Drams took the stage and it all got better.  This wasn't the band I had intended to listen to tonight.  I was going to go to Rev Room and hear Headlights and Mates of State.  But I couldn't get anyone to go, and I'm not one to go hear music by myself.  T was already going to hear The Drams, so my itinerary for the night changed.  I wasn't exactly excited about it.  I'm a little alt-country weary.  I'm fairly new to the genre and I've been pouring it on thick lately, to the point that Drive-By Truckers have been the soundtrack to my dreams.  It was time to take a break.  But, by the end of the night, I was thoroughly enjoying myself.

The Drams hail out of Denton, Texas and are comprised mostly of members of the former band Slobberbone.  They've been touring with Drive-By Truckers, playing their first studio album Jubilee Drive.  They're one of the most amped-up alt-country bands I've heard in a while.  Tonight was the second night of a two-night gig at White Water with Glossary.  You could tell they enjoyed the crowd. 

I don't know what it was with Glossary, but they sounded like they were having some major technical problems, although from the looks on their faces they were oblivious to it.  They're clearly talented, and there were moments in their set which showed some promise, but I thought their performance fell short of the standard set by their studio work.  It was a Glossary crowd, though, and they clearly loved it.  I thought it was a nice touch when their keyboardist joined The Drams on stage and played cowbell with all the fervor of Will Ferrell.  Bruce Dickinson would have been proud.

But it was a Drams night, no doubt about it.

-G

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