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Brian McGee and the Hollow Speed
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Brian McGee and the Hollow Speed
Americana
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Back, way back, before America was America, there were songs. Songs about drinking and death and regret and fear and anger and love. These songs have been all around the world. Each new generation in each place tinkers with them a bit, changing up the words and melodies, making them louder or softer or faster or slower. Brian McGee hasn't died yet, but has done and felt all those other things in spades. And until he does die, these songs are his. They are in his lungs and in his hands.
This is the first time Brian McGee has stepped out solo, since the break-up of the Pennsylvania punk rock trio PLOW UNITED, in 1997. In 1999 he moved to Western North Carolina to emerse himself in country music and learn about guitar, banjo, and furniture building. He spent time in dance halls, barrooms and woodshops which over the course of time, had an effect on the vocabulary of his songs. This vocabulary reflects both traditional and modern American music vernacular of which Brian had not only listen to, but also lived through. With his new band, THE HOLLOW SPEED, Brian McGee is taking parts of punk rock and country music and rubbing them together to ignite his rock and roll which some may call alt.country or folk rock, but it will always be rock and roll. |
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