There's a scene in Murray Lerner's film ("Festival"), about the 1963 Newport Music Festival, where Peter, Paul and Mary are shown obliging a resounding call for an encore with the protest song, "If I Had A Hammer." Peter and Paul face each other from the sides and Mary faces the audience of tens of thousands, shaking her blonde hair and bearing down on a song about making change. She would, they would hammer out danger and a warning all over the land. Delta Spirit have five hammers and they swing them the way Mary bobbled her head back in '63 for her close-ups, the way Mary sang as if her knees were on fire and her mouth was brimming with more ire laced with optimism than she knew what to do with. These Californians have more in common with the dirty haired, dirty fingernailed folk groups of the nascent years than they do any of their contemporaries. They're suited for reminiscent hopefulness and the gracefully youthful fusion of hostility and all-encompassing passion for all things that can set a smile ablaze or turn the hairs on arms and backs of necks into little beds of nails at the flick of a switch. They make lists of things they like, including all of the people they love, their home, pretty girls, desserts, bodies of water, justice and America. They believe there's still hope for it and in all of the rooms contained within the hallways of the band's newest offering, "Ode To Sunshine," they make you understand that, when it's all boiled down, what we all ultimately live for is catharsis and a fulfillment of body meeting land, air and sea harmoniously. They're about bodies meeting bodies, pressing skins to skins. They're about reminding you to listen more than you talk. They're about urging you to put stock in the happiness of others, not just your own. They make it obvious that we have to go somewhere to be somewhere. We have to feel something to really live. They sing of the soul searchers. They sing for the soul searchers. They are the soul searchers. – Sean Moeller
"Delta Spirit should be required listening."
- Daytrotter
"A hybrid of Americana rock and Northern Soul with boundless energy."
-mp3.com
The November issue of Fan the Fire Magazine is out now featuring Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Men Who Stare At Goats The White Ribbon, Youth In Revolt, Defendor, Marina And The Diamonds, The Romany Rye, Julian Casablancas, Biffy Clyro and AA Bondy plus art features from Kevin Cry, Matte Stephens and John Malloy and style spreads by Anoush Abrar and Aimee Hoving, Valentina Vos and Sebastian Scwajczak, plus much more.
Did anyone else hear you guys last night on the show Sons of Anarchy? You guys had the ending song leading into the credits! Who would of thought that the Delta Spirit went so well with bikers?
are you kidding me? i like dogs of all shapes and sizes, but a snake dog sounds right up my alley. throw some bacon on it and it may or may not be my dream dog.
Hey You!!!! Just wanna wish you happy friday and weekend... Like I always say dont party too much :) Be safe and thanks again for being a friend on here.......Holla at you l8ter(I think my L8ter was right!!Right?) lol
The October issue of Fan the Fire Magazine is out now featuring The Invention Of Lying, Up, A Serious Man, Inception, Up In The Air, The Soft Pack, Lissy Trullie, Hockey, Wolfmother, Paramore and Editors plus art features from The Little Friends Of Printmaking, Arielle Nadel and Huseyin Yilmaz and style spreads by Lauren Ward, Carl Heindl and Matias Troncoso, plus much more.
