Interesting take on a meshing between folk and garage rock. Plenty of other influences apparent though. Impressive flexibility of styles and genre. Personally, the band won me over with their cover of Radiohead's "National Anthem" which sound like what I feel Radiohead would've (should've) sounded like had they not discovered the synth board and the loop pedal. I give muchos props to this band, most bands aren't ballsy enough to attempt a Radiohead cover, and those who do rarely nail it. This band made the song completely their own, and not only do i respect that greatly, but any (true) fan of Radiohead would love the shit out of this cover. Unfortunately for Three Leaf they seemed to exacerbate their energy and although they put out a 12 song set, the only people in the audience who still seemed enthused were close friends of the band. Had the set been cut to about 7-8 songs though, (and the absence of their close, but not quite Ryan Adams cover) this band could have had an extremely solid set. Also may be important to note that their banjo player was missing this show and replaced with a very talented guest harmonica-ist(?) Very impressed with the first few songs, any fans of folk rock (or rev. horton heat) would thoroughly enjoy this band. So anyone with an interest in experimental folk rock in the central Texas area should definetly give this band a listen. Overall musicianship was very impressive and professional, and i feel that the stand out musician was the bassist. groovy.
3.5/5
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www.threeleafmusic.com - go here for a free downloadable copy of their Ghana EP (which i'll try to review later, i'm tired)
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