Bellwether Station
Atlanta, Georgia, United States | SELF
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The Drive-By Truckers have by now made such an impact establishing their poetic take on rough ‘n’ tumble Southern rock that they’ve inspired a whole subsequent wave of burgeoning regional bands clearly inspired in their wake. Honing their craft over the past several years, Atlanta’s Bellwether Station are one of the better examples, though I’m hearing as much Springsteen as Patterson Hood in their mix of rowdy, one-drink-over-the-line rockers and first-person narratives of sad-luck characters who’ve taken a number of wrong turns in life, now dealing with the consequences bearing down on them like a midnight train as they hope to God they can push that truck off the tracks in time. An impressively sturdy batch of songs, their self-titled full-length debut CD is out now, available at their shows. - Stomp and Stammer
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Bellwether Station will keep you out past curfew…
What began in late 2009 as a series of basement jam sessions has quickly gravitated onto stages across Atlanta, where this brand of sweat-soaked yet song-driven rock and roll has found a welcoming home. Although it’s been a good run so far, this train isn’t anywhere near out of track. Instead, Bellwether Station is fresh from the studio and pleased to announce the release of its self-titled debut album.
Recorded throughout 2012 at Chase Park Transduction in Athens, Georgia, the album’s 13 songs delve into the past and the present, the hopeful and the hopeless, and love lost and love found. While some of these tales are told with amplifiers cranked closer to “10” than others, all are held together by the common thread of rock and roll. If your iPod owes as much to Bakersfield as it does the Bowery, this is probably right up your alley. So switch the record selector to ready, turn the volume dials clockwise, and let it rip. With its initial studio offering in the books, Bellwether Station looks forward to 2013, a year promising more rock shows in Atlanta and beyond. There will be strings to snap, fuses to blow, cables to short, and sticks to splinter; and as long as there are crowds filing in to hear these songs, the band will gladly donate their equipment and eardrums to the cause.
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