"Cut the Dive Poets some slack: The quartet, which has been playing around St. Louis for only a year, is still finding its voice. (Right now it lies somewhere between Cougaresque heartland anthems and Counting Crows acoustic rock, making the band unfashionably late to the 21st century.) But there's an earnest charm in the Dive Poets' unassuming Americana, the concise and melodic Telecaster guitar contours, the metronomic country rock rhythms, its cordial offers to buy a small-town bar a round, and the plaintive, restrained vocals of singer and songwriter Eric Sargent. On the gorgeous piano ballad "Someday Soon," Sargent cuts to the quick of an interminable war's incalculable home front costs — and on the modest "Cherokee Nights," the whole band captures the sweet loneliness of life and love on the south side."
- Roy Kasten, The Riverfront Times (December 22, 2008)
This Saturday, May 2nd at the Schlafly Tap Room: Another free show with two great St. Louis acts: Leadville and The Linemen! Show starts at 9ish and ends at Midnightish.
Leadville www.myspace.com/leadville Seasoned alt-rock and rockin' veterans of the St. Louis scene from such bands as Free Dirt, Couch Bucket, the Good Griefs, Stillwater, Soup Sandwich, Fran Peck of Dirt, Magic City and the Phonocaptors. I know. It's only rock n' roll. But we like it!
The Linemen www.myspace.com/thelinemen This is one of the last shows for The Linemen as singer Kevin Butterfield is moving to another great beer city, Montreal!
Make sure to catch their last show in the friendly confines of the Eliot Room.
You too Mr. Sargent. The tunes are sounding good, I need to get out and hear you guys soon! You'll like The Firebird by the way if you haven't played there yet. Cool room
I'm hoping you have just now started reading my blog. I went back to read through some stuff and there were some major mistakes that I had to apologize for in the blog I posted today. Enjoy and my apologies for the lack of editing previously.
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