D. Rangers

D. Rangers

For many, the genre of country music is synonymous with the irritating pop twang prevalent in Nashville, Tennessee, or else the ignorant machismo prattling of Toby Keith. That’s a shame. If you didn’t get anything else out of O Brother, Where Art Thou?, you should have at least learned that rootsy, old-timey country and Appalachian music carries far more diversity than whatever Travis Tritt is up to these days.

Winnipeg’s D. Rangers are living proof. Innovative, dangerous and purveyors of, from what I’ve heard, a truly impressive live show, the D. Rangers combine bluegrass, western swing, rockabilly, punk and good old fashioned rawk into a remarkable take on traditional music. Plus any band that plays something called a muckbucket bass is worth more than a passing glance.

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