Girls Guns and Glory
Performs Hank Williams at the Music Hall Loft
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Words and Photo By John Collins
irls Guns and Glory, a touring Country
Rock/Americana band from Boston performed two sets of music at the Music
Hall Loft in Portsmouth on March 4, debuting their new release, Tribute to Hank.
The band’s set list from the midweek show included their popular songs “Root Cellar,” “Maryann,” and “This Old House,” a song about guitarist and lead singer Ward Hayden’s childhood
home in Hampton Beach, NH. Hayden is joined by
Chris Hersch on electric lead guitar, Paul Dilley
on stand up bass and Josh Kiggans on the drums.
Girls Guns and Glory also performed “All The Way
Up to Heaven,” the lead song from their 2014 album Good Luck.
The audience was then rocked by several rousing
Hank Williams songs as performed by Girls Guns
and Glory on their new album, Tribute to Hank
Williams, recorded live at The Lizard Lounge in
Cambridge. With a version of Hank Williams’ “I
Saw The Light,” sung with audience participation
and a strong three song encore, the energetic fourpiece closed out the evening of music with vigor.
Girls Guns and Glory are current nominees for
Band of the Year and Album of the Year for Good
Luck by the New England Music Awards, awarded
in April. The band is a previous winner of Band
of the Year in their genre by the Boston Music
Awards, and has been featured recently in Rolling
Stone Country Magazine. Girls Guns and Glory
has spent much of their career touring all over the
country and throughout Europe.
The band heads down south in mid-March for
a string of five shows in Austin, Texas during the
week of SXSW. Following that Girls Guns and Glory will be back in New England the first weekend
of April for the Good Vibes Music Jam show where
they perform alongside Aldous Collins Band in
Plymouth, MA.