ROY DAVIS & THE DREGS
Dead Weight (Milltown): B
Did alt country first come above ground with the Counting Crows? Them’s fightin’ words to fake cowboys, but Davis and his Dregs make a good case for just that on their second album. The Maine trio does a fine job of rehashing Ryan Adams and Wilco circa “A.M.” But Adam Durwitz is also all over this one - and that’s not a knock. To be fair, the Crows never swamp-stomped like “Hardly Holding On,” but if this was 1994 you’d be breaking up with your prom date to excellent ballad “Lie Like the Snow Falls” and loving it. Download: “Lie Like the Snow Falls.” (Appearing with Girls, Guns & Glory tonight at the Middle East, Cambridge.)
The Average White Band
