Kevin Bronson on March 21st, 2012

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Philadelphia trio Good Old War seems to have struck a chord with its third album “Come Back As Rain,” which is charting well after its release earlier this month. Theirs is an easy-breezy take on folk music, with Keith Goodwin, Dan Schwartz and Tim Arnold punctuating saccharine melodies with acoustic plucking and buoyant harmonies. They make it sound remarkably simple, and with so many folk-pop bands today mining the upbeat music of the ’60s and ’70s as an antidote for these troubled times, a dose of Good Old War, while not exactly challenging, is another feel-good shot in the arm.

||| Download: “Calling Me Names” (via RCRDLBL.com)

||| Live: Good Old War, joined by the Belle Brigade and Family of the Year, play the Avalon on Sunday.