#74 "Danger" by Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside

Alert! Alert! There's an alteration in The 300! A new discovery has required me to insert a cool artist I just heard for the first time and now the organization of the list is a bit out of whack. That's alright. If you want to hear the song, however, the widget jukebox displays everything alphabetically. You'll have to go back a little ways to find it.

I went to an Avett Brothers concert on New Year's Eve in Ashville, North Carolina. One of the opening acts was Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside. Ford, an Ashville native, was clearly excited about being in front of her home crowd. She even gave a shout-out to her old high school classmates!

Ford and her band are part of this new/old sound kind of thing that a lot of cool bands are doing these days. She's got a stand-up bass player, a drummer who occasionally pulls out the jazz brushes, and a voice that wouldn't sound out of place alongside the Andrews Sisters in the 1940's. My wife and I both just really liked her style. It's classic, retro, and strangely fresh all at the same time. And no... I have no idea what the hell she's saying in this song, but it sure does sound cool.

"Danger" is from the EP "Not An Animal." To hear the song, click on the icon in the widget jukebox along the side of the blog.