Kings of Leon – the darlings of a media starved of any gun-slingers, sons of a preacher man, infant drifters across the Delta Blues, grizzled but pretty, sticky fingers but sweet cheekbones, nicked from Nashville and placed in pop. Are they ours? Or are they their own? Hard to tell, hard to tell. I really got to liking them, although I haven’t really the foggiest what Caleb is warbling on about. Sounds good though don’t it. Don’t believe the hype, they weren’t always like this, they didn’t simply emerge shaggy and whistling Dixie, they evolved, don’t we all? Believe it or not, lazy hacks began by dubbing them the ‘southern strokes’, who are they you ask? Don’t be so fickle, they had the finest coiffures in rock and were remarkably wealthy before they strummed a chord, and yes this was eventually unfairly held against them.Anyroads back to the southern strokes, these greasers were forged somewhat differently, their Pentecostal mentor and sometime father, burrowed them into the heart of Johnny Reb spouting fire and brimstone. Putting the fear of the devil in the god-fearing folk who like midgets attracted to glare, fascinated by the boom, stood shivering listening to his chants… Read full this story
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