This is a band that clearly reveres its forebears but is making music that lives emphatically in the moment.
Suited up like Al Capone’s enforcer, his gangster image enhanced by double bassist Joey Glynn’s brooding resemblance to a young Ernest Borgnine, LaFarge (right) is a storyteller in song. Tales of bootleggers, vote-riggers and general rogues and instructions to his moll to pack her suitcase – and this time do it right – are delivered in the voice of a young man who has seen more of life’s troubles than he probably should have over rhythms that swing and boogie with unstoppable momentum.
