I grew up listening to southern rock bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd, 38 Special along with many many others. Southern rock was a 70’s staple that seemingly disappeared at some point in the last couple of decades and started to more closely resemble (ar at least be supported by) country music. If you were to ask me, I would say that after seeing Whiskey Myers live, they have ben mis-genre’d, although I can say that when listening to them on album it’s quite easy to place them in the country music bucket, but live is a much different story.
This is a band that clearly has roots in traditional southern rock, but also doesn’t shy away from blues rock either seeing as they closed with a cover of Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B Goode,” and in all honesty, could probably tour alongside other bands such as Shinedown and Slash featuring Myles Kennedy, among others.
This is a band that doesn’t lack charisma, or talent. They leave it all on the stage, between amazing guitar solos and dueling guitars from Cody Tate and John Jeffers, piano solos by Tony Kent, and singer Cody Cannon who has a masterful rock ’n roll voice they are able to run the spectrum of genre’s and even get a bit heavier than expected at times.
I had gone into this show completely blind, never having heard a single song from them, and as they reached into their bag for almost two hours of rip-roaring rock fun, you could see some of the country fans either sit down or leave because the show was “too hard rock” for them, which is a disappointment, but not incredibly surprising. They never let up, not once, not even in the slower ballad songs, they still had the kind of energy and pace that can really blow the doors off a venue, and blow the doors off they did!
