Music INSIGHT
into new album, tour dates
by Benjamin Nunnally
I
t’s almost sundown at the Peerless Saloon
and Grille in Anniston, where Buck McPherson sits at the bar sipping a beer. He’ll greet
you with a handshake, make a polite offer to
buy you a drink and share a table. It’s when he
cracks wise that the hillbilly rebel stage persona, the drummer/singer for McPherson Struts,
shines through.
“It’s like a dirty joke set to music,” said McPherson, smirking as he described his long-lived
band and its brand of raucous rockabilly, with
songs like “Lucifer In Drag,” “Mean Drunk” and
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“Mirrors on My Ceiling” taking listeners on a
tongue-in-cheek tour of hard living. “We take
the music seriously, but lyrically we keep it fun
and light-hearted.”
The band recently announced a new album,
“Low Rent Romeo,” and a slew of shows leading up to the album’s Dec. 23 release, including their fourth annual December Salvation
Army show at the Peerless, with free admission exchanged for non-perishable goods to
be donated for the holidays.
September 2014
INSIGHT