Hailing from Canada, each of them accomplished session musicians, New Country Rehab are ‘the guys everyone wants in their band, in a band’ (Tom Power | CBC). They released their debut album last January 2011, carrying a mix of original material and imaginatively reworked covers of Hank Williams (Sr) and Bruce Springsteen.
I came across them in Nashville at the Americana Music Festival in October 2011. I had missed their first show at the Basement, but the buzz they created on the back of that show meant I wasn’t going to miss the chance to see them play a few days later at the Rutledge.
Filming and interviewing a band on the hoof just before a show can often be a tense experience, finding a location, filming and conducting an interview with a very limited window. Not with these guys. Their dynamism and co-operativeness helped produce these films. Set up outside the Rutledge on the street (with passing traffic thrown in the mix) the first film is a performance especially for us, along with an exclusive interview in the back of their tour bus and a film of their fantastic show-opener, a cover of Springsteen’s State Trooper.
They’re in the UK this week, in Glasgow for Celtic Connections opening for CW Stoneking today, 26th January 2012. Then playing their first London gig at The Wilmington on Monday 3oth January, free entry. Make sure you catch them while they’re here.
January 26, 2012
Kathy Magee
Notes from Mt. Pleasant 
1 responses to “New Country Rehab | Film, Interview and London gig alert”
Paul Kerr
January 26th, 2012 at 23:44
Saw them tonight in Glasgow. Great show, really able to whip up a storm and get a great variety of sounds from the guitar and fiddle