With a barn-torching second album, Portland's Dickel Brothers take rollicking Old Time rebellion on the road. The vinyl version of Volume Two contains a pair of songs not available on compact disc. The Dickels' rawboned hillbilly music, inspired by the Old Time sound of Depression-era Appalachia, heats up crowds like shotgunned hits of Sweet Mother Liquor.
Someone usually manages to buy the sharp-suited quintet a round.
Still, if they have to pay art-beer prices to talk Old Time, the Dickels will do it. When it comes to their adopted music, these guys have become fishers of men, proselytizers for Old Time's serrated simplicity. We may wear suits when we play, but we always go to gigs with dirty hands. We first started dressing up because these old guys, they'd have to put on their Sunday best to play. And now, since we've been doing it for so long, it's like I get into this mode when I put on my suit.