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What people are saying!
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Best local albums: Big Smith, Gig; The Domino Kings, In the Back of Your Mind; DJ P and DJ Z Trip Uneasy Listening Vol. 1; Hogmolly, Hickadelic Jazzgrass; Solid Jones, self-titled. |
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On Thanksgiving 2002, we are thankful for:... Talented local musicians and bands such as Hogmolly, Unteen, the Professional Americans, Big Smith, Ilijah, DJ Platinum and many, many others. And for the venues and listeners who support them. |
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If the words "progressive" and "hillbilly" ever belonged in the same sentence, it would be one describing the acoustic sounds of Hogmolly. The group's music is a twisted amalgam of styles, shifting easily from a bluegrass two-beat to an acid rock back-beat to a jazz swing-beat and back again. |
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I think it's the shit. Unique and skillfull is my first impression. |
Brian Shipman On-Air Media |
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Hogmolly put on an absolutely outstanding performance for the 2001 Ozarks Celebration Festival Kick-Off Concert. This local Ozark band is full of energy, talent, and acoustical diversity. They are truly gifted musicians. |
Tobin Bushman, Events Coordinator
Southwest Missouri State University |
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A friend of mine says that bluegrass music is "ever lonesome, but never blue." No matter how mournful it sounds or how grim the subject matter of the lyrics of some of those traditional tunes, bluegrass is just plain fun music to hear and play. These guys get that. Listening to Hogmolly's debut album, "Hickadelic Jazzgrass," with its live sounding studio mix, is as much fun as a Saturday night at Harlow's, in Springfield, Missouri. With an all-original mix, Bo, Matt and Jeff strut their unique musical stuff--based in hillbilly and bluegrass music, but influenced by R&B, funk, blues, acid rock and jazz. This is the best hickadelic jazzgrass album by a band named after an ugly fish that lives in the clear streams of the Ozarks, that I've heard all year. If you can't make it to a Hogmolly gig soon, crank up this CD on your stereo and dance around your house. It'll make the neighbors wonder what you're up to. And it'll be fun. |
Nancy Cardwell *Special Projects Director, International Bluegrass Music Association; Owensboro, Ky. *Bluegrass Now magazine, Contributing Editor; Rolla, Mo. *former bass player with Homegrown, Mountain Aire, The Mullets & Midnight Flight; Springfield, Mo. |
