Ears Wide Open: Jail Weddings

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Took a minute, but there on the dusty shelves in the Buzz Bands archives is a copy of the Starvations’ 2003 “Get Well Soon,” whose dark bar-band swagger sounds pretty good to this day. The Starvations died of hunger back in ’05, but singer-guitarist Gabriel Hart, thankfully, lives on, even if his music seems to be aging in reverse – judging from “Love Is Lawless,” the debut album from his new outfit Jail Weddings. Abetted by female vocalists Jada Wagensomer and Katya Nadia Hubiak, Hart channels some Carl Perkins on this collection of kitchen-sink ’60s pop. The music is still boozy to the core, and I’d hate to pick up the bar tab for Jail Weddings’ 10-member ensemble, but in a time everybody seems to be rockin’ you back, you could do a lot worse.

||| Download: “I Thought You Were Someone I Knew” [audio:http://www.mediafire.com/file/ssp3v8vnhf1hvaf/Jail%20Weddings_I%20Thought%20You%20Were%20Someone%20I%20Knew.mp3]

||| Live: Jail Weddings celebrate their album release with a show Friday at the Bootleg Theater with Sweaters and Amanda Jo Williams.

Photo by Sarah Morrison