BEiTTHEMEANS.com BIRMINGHAM, AL reverbnation.com/beitthemeans Genres: Rock / Southern Rock / Hard Rock Label: Ol Elegante Records, ol elegante Members: GUITAR/VOX: JOSH JONES - BASS: CASEY WILSON - DRUMS: NATHAN KELLEY Just when you thought Southern rock was said and done, along comes Beitthemeans, swaggering out from a dark shed somewhere deep in the pines of Sylacauga, Alabama. The name is fitting for a power trio that is all about boot straps, whether it's pulling them up or using them to beat their way out of a smoldering genre that could benefit from a whipping or two. With swelling riffs, bluesy throwbacks and a lead singer with a screech that must be part owl, BITM certainly cracks the whip on Southern rock. Bassist Casey Wilson, drummer Nathan Kelley and singer/guitarist Josh Jones partnered with Birmingham's Ol Elegante studios and producer Lester Nuby for the band's latest effort, Head Held High. It's a natural pairing, considering Nuby's roots in alternative South! ern rock. He currently plays in a Birmingham-based band called Vulture Whale, was a founding member of the band Verbena and has worked extensively with folks like Amy Ray and Dave Grohl. "They're Southern rock, no doubt, but with a hint of the occult," Nuby says. "And, lyrically it's completely truthful...singing songs about salvation and sin, about getting by in crazy, small-town Alabama." It doesn't hurt either, that Jones' startling scream is a full-on invocation to the dirty ghosts of rock and ...
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