We went to school with a one of the guys who plays in the band The Powder Kegs – in fact, I spent many a great evening sitting in the tavern on campus listening to lead singer Ryan Deiringer play Powder Kegs songs on piano. So you can imagine my delight when I heard that The Powder Kegs were turning some ears around the blogosphere.
The Kegs have gone through a couple metamorphoses since those days – back then they were a bluegrass band, now they’re a poppier trio. But one thing has remained constant throughout the bands’ iterations: They write great songs.
The latest from The Powder Kegs camp is “La Mariposa,” an addictively catchy track that lets Ryan’s voice sing sweet Spanglish and memorable melodies. The instrumentation on the track is fairly simple – guitar, shaker, drums – until a fun little xylophone run around the two minute mark and a snazzy brass interlude shortly thereafter thanks to Mr. Dylan Hume. All in all, it’s just a really sweet track that shows me (and hopefully the rest of the world) that the Powder Kegs are the real deal, whatever form they take.
The Powder Kegs – La Mariposa (YSI) (filesavr)
2 comments:
Hey, these links only seem to lead to jpgs, not the song.
Hey Laura - thanks for the heads up! Not sure why that was happening, but it should be fixed now.
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