$15 Cover @ the Door / Start 5pm / Doors 4:30pm / Standing Show
Celebrating 40 years of keeping “one foot on Pluto, the other planted knee-deep in the Delta mud.”
The yin ‘n uh, yang balance out like a pair o’ trained pork buns on a seesaw; unlikely beauty that’s invented by melding weird guitar passages to hooks as big as Mainland China. Funny, rockin’, technically ass-pounding. You want? They have.”
— Byron Coley, Forced Exposure
“Phil Kaplan’s songwriting is filled with some of quirkiest hooks around…, he owes a lot to the feel and looseness of Delta and early urban blues artists such as Slim Harpo or Howlin’ Wolf, or re-interpreters of the form, such as Capt. Beefheart and Lowell George. Like an especially delicious musical spring roll, entwining lines into intricate webs of guitar… just a sheer joy to listen to these guys play.”
— Richard Cromonic, Sweet Potato
“From hillbilly licks to easy-going lopes, Men & Volts pay homage to just about every kind of folksy native music that ever sprang out of a six-string. They defy all categorizations.”
— Janice Kaidan, The Noise
Men & Volts continue and expand upon their signature brand of rhythms, blues, and rock ‘n’ soul. The band now features founder Philip Kaplan, guitar and vocals, with Baba Grantley Smith, traps and percussion, Jon Cohan, drums, John Mulrooney, lap steel and dobro, Mike Pyle, guitar, and Sam Potrykus, bass guitar and vocals. Co-founding bass player David Greenberger (The Duplex Planet) continues in his capacity as artistic consiglieri, contributing lyrics and art direction to the project.