It's a mesmerizing live show, one tuned from travel around the country. A broad and brave sound. Old earthy tones with very modern sounds. An unusual and iconoclastic recipe but somehow oddly sensible. If not sensible, it works.
Slide is a very modern act steeped in roots.
They approach that lineage with respect and maturity. These songs are catchy, unafraid of being pop but hardly surrendering to convention. Sometimes clever, even sarcastic, sometimes blue, sad, and sometimes funky. Slide has released three CDs on Your Name Here records. Their debut, Forgiving Buckner, was enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown for some of its baseball related themes.