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The Felice Brothers first emerged from the Hudson Valley nearly two decades ago with a gloriously ramshackle sound that drew on everything from Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan to Walt Whitman and Flannery O’Connor. In just a few short years, the group went from busking in the subway to playing Radio City Music Hall with Bright Eyes and appearing everywhere from the Newport Folk Festival to Levon Helm’s Midnight Ramble. Beginning with 2007’s Tonight At The Arizona, the band helped pave the way for the modern folk revival, while at the same time challenging its boundaries and conventions with bold sonic experimentation and unyielding integrity. The New York Times likened their music to “the rootsy mysticism of the Band,” while Rolling Stone praised the “scrappiness” of their “folk-rock noir,” and The Guardian hailed their songs as “impeccably crafted, with literary-minded lyrics that are both playful and profound.”
The band’s newest record, Valley of Abandoned Songs, marks The Felice Brothers’ debut for Conor Oberst’s new Million Stars label and showcases the group at their most intimate and unvarnished. Balancing hope and despair in equal measure, the album explores the search for meaning and connection through the eyes of a wide-ranging cast of misfits and outcasts, and though the recordings here span several years of almost-lost tunes, the result is a thoroughly cohesive collection that manages to feel both utterly timeless and particularly attuned to the present all at once.
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love their cd's. live they are magical. i have seen alot of goups in my 54 years. these guy hav IT. they have fun. their songs are great live. rock and roll at its finest.
Show was awsome! had a great time. you could hear all the instruments and vocals clearly. It was halloween! how could it be bad?
Venue is a great place to hang out, before, during and after. I won't go back because the sound was punishingly loud and distorted. The band shouldn't have been in costume - I wanted to see what they looked like. I know the Felice Brothers from the down-and-out, carni, grifter songs I hear on the radio, which make a very distinctive impression. I didn't hear any of that until the end of the last set,. Just alot of wishy-washy, forgettable jamming... My impression now is that the flavor I was looking for is something the Felice Brothers experiment with, and have gotten some airplay from but it is not charactoristic of their sound.
The most fun audience engaging show I have been of late. It was so great that it was on Halloween too, everyone was singing along and dancing. The band sounded great and the additional horn section just made it magical.
Felice Brothers were awesome, Music Hall of Williamsburg is a good venue, would totally go again
Just the right mix of mayhem, tenderness and hilarity the boy were in fine form tonight. This marks the sixth FB show I've seen and one of the best. Musicianship was top notch (sometime they can digress usually alcohol-related but not this time). Announced new album coming out shortly. Totally a band deserving a larger audience.
The Felice Brothers were such a pleasant surprise! We went thinking we'd see some good old New Orleans-meets-Dylan with a little Snoop Dogg whine thrown in and we got so much more! Half of them were in scary drag for Halloween, which really added a lot to the show. If it wasn't so gimmicky nowadays, they could do it all the time, especially with their new repertoire. The opening band, Adam Haworth Project, were a sleeper hit. They really rocked. The rhythm section was amazing and the drummer even came out during the Felice Bros. set and added some electronic drums to the mix. Awesome show. We forgot to bring earplugs, only because we thought we were going to see a strictly folk show. It wasn't unbearable, but I still have a little tinnitus from it.
The Felice Brothers are great live, that's a given. They are inspired, driven artist who know that you need to be having fun. And they are a band, selflessly so. But what surprised me was the new songs they played. Catskill hip-hop??? I don't know but I loved it.
The felice bros were awesome and the music hall is a great venue!
I drove an hour and a half, and knew it was going to be worth it. I wasn't disappointed. Sloppy and brilliant, sweaty and gnarly. I felt a little bad for the boys, the humidity was thick. They spent a lot of time sitting down, laying down, and pounding waters. They raised the bar on the sloppy - soulful category. They make Pavement sound like a tight Bluegrass band. Drunken sailors with gift for glory.
