Massy Ferguson

High Energy Americana from Seattle USA.

Think Replacements meet early REM.ou know only good things can come from a band that named itself after a farm-equipment company.

But Seattle's Massy Ferguson is not as hayseed as you'd expect.

Their songs are steeped in the classic Americana of the Uncle Tupelo, the Jayhawks, and the Backsliders.

Rich with imagery of highways, truck-stop coffee, whiskey, road-weariness, and bad motels, Massy Ferguson make cinematic roots music about the blue-collar aspects of our nation.

This is what Jay Farrar might sound like without his thesaurusSinger-bassist Ethan Anderson says the sound is Americana that leans more toward rock than country, and that's a pretty good description.

Think Drive-By Truckers or some combination of Son Volt and The Hold Steady.

Think Springsteen's "Greetings From Asbury Park" or "Nebraska." Those influences, 1970s Southern rock and good-time classic rock bands like Thin Lizzy, have also helped them to land gigs at festivals and clubs in Australia, Iceland, Germany, England and Mexico.