The Defibulators will be playing the Dolores River Brewery on Saturday, June 8, at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $10.
The Defibulators are a country band from New York City. Likened to watching "Hee-Haw on mescaline," The Defibulatorss jump-start new life into vintage country music and deliver a unique sound that's anything but old-timey.
Their sonic buckshot is a mix of sawing fiddle, fat Telecaster twang, howling harmonica, a driving rhythm section of upright bass, drums, and washboard, heavy vocal harmonies and surreal lyrics that spin big-rig tales of deception, debauchery, depleted bank accounts, domestic dilemmas, fanaticism, vintage firearms, biological anomalies, airline intoxication, and animal ennui.
Driven by the harmonies of front-duo Erin Bru and Bug Jennings, the band was born in a New York City barbecue joint, where Jennings and Telecaster player Chris Hartway (aka Roadblock) worked as bartenders.
Transplants from California, Texas, and New Jersey (respectively), the three found a shared obsession with classic country music, cutting their teeth on early western swing, bluegrass, rockabilly, and honky-tonk.
They landed their first gig on a dare, opening for a punk band in an East Village tiki bar. After two years of relentless gigging in NYC, the band released their debut album "Corn Money" in 2009 and hit the road hard, touring extensively across the country.
Their first tour van was a 1977 Dodge ambulance from Effingham, Ill., that they accidentally bought on Ebay.
