Friday, June 30, 2006
"The band came about at a friend’s crawfish boil in New Orleans. We were just jamming with friends, and some folks from the Maple Leaf showed up and invited us to play there,” says Thomas Johnson of his Southern rock, psychedelic outfit Low Country Audio. Containing two sets of brothers—Ryan and Vaughn Daigle, Will and Jake McMains—along with Johnson, Taylor Winton and Scotty Labelle, the roster has extensive history in blues, classic rock and funk bands and bring it all together in the heavy soul groove of the band.
“Our sound is heavily fueled by our rhythm section’s passion for creating really deep, improvisational grooves combined with the lead players’ desire to write original and inspiring songs,” says Johnson.
In a live setting, the group sits somewhere between the chicken-fried soul of The Allman Brothers and a plasma-burnt psychedelic funk, but they manage to keep a tight reign on the songs and refrain from spinning off into noodly virtuoso showcases. Johnson credits that to the McMains boys who make up the band’s rhythm section “This bred a sort of telepathy between these guys,” he says. “Same goes for the Daigle twins. With a solid foundation, the house of jam can be built.” Jam on. myspace.com/lowcountryaudio.
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