{"id":741,"date":"2014-04-07T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fallingblox.com\/?p=741"},"modified":"2014-04-07T10:42:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T14:42:00","slug":"musicblox-elephant-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/?p=741","title":{"rendered":"MusicBlox: Elephant Revival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over a decade ago while living in Maine, I attended an outdoor fiddle festival and happened upon the amazing music of The Mammals<\/a> (“Hi, we’re The Mammals, and so are you”). Now sadly defunct, their musicians have gone their separate ways. I keep tabs on one of the resulting projects — the duo of the original two members playing together now as a husband-and-wife combo simply called “Mike & Ruthy<\/a>“. I heard they were coming to Boston to play at the Brighton Music Hall, opening for a band I was unfamiliar with. But the endorsement of former members of The Mammals is good enough for me, so I got my tickets to go see Elephant Revival<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I was blown away.<\/p>\n

They’re young, attractive, and blisteringly talented. They could be considered bluegrass, or even “newgrass” but, like The Mammals, that doesn’t really completely encompass their sound. Sure, there’s the usual complement of guitar, banjo, upright bass, fiddle and washboard — but what they build out of it is so much more.<\/p>\n