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Three songwriters? 3 piece harmonies? For a rock band, The Beatles come to mind for these reasons alone. And you certainly could compare The Superficials to any number of iconic rock bands, but their repertoire doesn?t end there. Diversity is practically guaranteed when you have three songwriters in one band: Erik Lang, who plays bass upside-down and left-handed, brings in a bit of the Bakersfield sound and contributes harmonica in several songs; Tripp Hewell alternates between electric and acoustic guitar and is informed more by the indie-pop scene; Paul K Johnson II takes most of the lead guitar duties and writes thinking man?s songs that always break the rules when you least expect it; Matthew Togger is the man that holds it all together from behind a 60?s Gretch drum kit. Somehow they mesh these different styles into a sound of their own that The Nashville Sports Council calls ?Folk and Roll?. To top it off, they're probably the only band around whose members have played at both CBGB and Tootsie's Orchid Lounge.
For The Superficials, the New York minute may as well be the Nashville minute. This group of four young expatriates from the East have faced the doldrums of working in retail, construction, and waiting tables, while leveraging their futures in the lean and flush, boom and bust world of the 21st Century troubadour. Lately though, the opportunities just keep rolling in: their first big break came in the form of serenading thousands in Seattle at Hempfest, attended by a record 310,000 cannabis connoisseurs, finishing their set immediately before the stoner Sabbath of 4:20 P.M; their performance at the Country Music Marathon led to the inclusion of their song ?Somehow? on New Balance Shoes? Rock Your Run compilation, distributed to over 30,000 runners; at the Music City Hot Chicken Festival, Mayor Karl Dean and Country starlet Lorrie Morgan introduced them to 5,000 adventurous epicureans celebrating Nashville?s super-spicy signature dish. With additional shows such as headlining the Smith County (TN) Fair and Pumpkintown Opry, and of course, every dive bar around, the band is continually taking their music to a new level.
Having made a fan and friend out of neighbor/producer Jim Lightman (india.arie, Hank III, Lee Ann Womack), doesn?t hurt either. Lightman recorded the upcoming album for next to nothing, but it sounds as if it cost a million bucks. ?Play to the Clique? will be The Superficials? first bona fide studio record and will be officially released this summer. The tongue-in-cheek name implies homage to the loyal fans, which is increasingly becoming more than just family and friends and friends of friends, not an easy feat in a cut throat, clique driven, over-saturated-with-great-rock-music town that Nashville has become.
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