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| Popmatters |
 Feral Fire marks the sixth album from the Murfreesboro, Tennessee-based collective known as Glossary. Over the course of the previous quintet of releases, the band has covered a lot of ground, from Thin Lizzy-esque rockers to more pastoral acoustic fare. There was a pretty high standard of quality about their songs, but the economics of being a touring entity kept Glossary from touring on the level of peers like Drive-By Truckers and Lucero. Both bands have built a devoted fanbase through tireless touring, an often thankless endeavor that ultimately paid off for both franchises. Glossary has shared stages with Drive-By Truckers, but savvy Lucero fans know that the bond between the two bands goes that much deeper. Glossary guitarist Todd Beene has played steel for Lucero for the last couple of years, enjoying a high profile slot in one of America’s finest bands. Lucero’s rise has afforded them the luxury of their own label imprint (through their label deal with East/West) called Liberty and Lament. The Memphis quintet release their own records on the label and have made Glossary the first signing. Feral Fire is the first release from the newly forged union, and it is a shot straight out of the park....full text |
| Hearya |
| The other night I was having a couple beers with my friend SafariMan, and we got to talking about how excited we were for SXSW this year. We probably spent an hour reminiscing about last year and all of the great acts we saw. At one point, SafariMan asked me, “Who was that awesome band we saw at Habana Calle?” I told him it was Glossary, to which he responded, “That’s right! I’d never heard of them, but they were great!” Ahhhh, SXSW. Well, I’ve got good news for SafariMan and any other fans of Glossary – they’ve got a nice new album out, released yesterday via Lucero’s new Liberty and Lament record label (Glossary’s Todd Beene also plays in Lucero). We wrote a weird review of their last album, The Better Angels of our Nature, back in 2008. That album ended up being #40 on our best of 2008 list and their latest, Feral Fire, is just about on par. In fact, there are some shining moments on the album that may even be better. I’m not sure yet if it’s as good from top to bottom – time will tell....full text |
| Americansongwriter |
| If you haven’t turned your ears to the middle of our fair state in the last few years, then you’ve probably missed some of the best rock music you’re likely to find anywhere. “Whatever, man,” you say. “I’m with it. I know Nashville’s a rock town now ‘cause Jack White moved there and Kings of Leon won a Grammy.” Maybe, but the truth is that if you left Chattanooga and drove to Nashville looking for great music, you’d have driven about thirty miles too far. Thanks in part to the energy spilling over from MTSU’s Department of Recording Industry, Murfreesboro has fast become one of America’s most exciting music towns, giving rise to many of the regions most innovative groups. At the heart of that buzz is Glossary, who for the past 15 years have dedicated themselves to making music in Murfreesboro and making it right. Their sixth studio album, Feral Fire, takes its name from Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, and with this latest effort, the band is, to borrow from McCarthy, poised to “carry the fire” through Middle Tennessee and beyond. “Blood on the Knobs,” the final track off the band’s 2007 release, The Better Angels of Our Nature, was a defiant, all-in affirmation of a life spent dedicated to music. “I’m still holdin’ on to rock and roll,” claims lead singer Joey Kneiser, and despite the realities inherent in being a small Tennesee band, Kneiser and company have made good on that pledge. Feral Fire not only holds on to rock and roll, it embraces it, wrestles with it, and shapes it to its will. It is that malleability, perhaps, that makes these songs so appealing. The band’s range and dexterity are evidence of what fifteen years of likeminded focus and dedication can do for a band. As the album’s title might imply, these are smart folks you’re dealing with, too, and the subtlety of words is not lost on them. To call something feral is to say it is wild, and the album is certainly that—it leaps shamelessly from Thin-Lizzyesque jumpers like “Lonely is the Town” and “Save Your Money for the Weekend” to pedal steel-soaked alt-country sweetness in “Your Heart to Haunt” and back to the unabashed, fist-pumping rock of “Bend With the Breeze” and “The Natural State.” If the latter doesn’t make you want to hop in your car and head towards Arkansas, check your pulse....full text |
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