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DOWN THE LINE
• 2005 NACA Mid-America Showcase
Chicago’s Down The Line continues to demonstrate that you don’t need electricity to generate real power. Their third full-length album, For All You Break, delivers mighty hooks and harmonies within smart songcraft and truly shining vocals. It’s an acoustic mix—guitar, mandolin, violin, harmonica and djembe, driven by a lone-electric bass—that the Chicago Sun-Times praised as “an organic blend of rollicking pop.” The group prefers to describe their sound more simply: acoustic pop. (Although when pressed, they explain, “If The Cars had kids with Fleetwood Mac, well, they’d probably sound like us.”) However you label them, Down The Line creates music that’s pure, unique and unforgettable. The 13 never-played songs on For All You Break were arranged and recorded in only 12 days, a purposeful departure from the months-long recording processes of Down The Line’s two previous albums, Please Remember My Name and Welcome To Flavortown. That self-imposed schedule intensity resulted in energetic and urgent performances by band members Levi Britton (acoustic guitar, vocals), Derek Fawcett (djembe, vocals), Dan Myers (harmonica, mandolin, violin, vocals), and Dave Rothkopf (acoustic guitar, bass, vocals). Down The Line’s For All You Break reminds us that acoustic music can indeed be electrifying.
Down The Line is currently on tour in support of their new album, traveling and performing with legendary acts including America, Peter Frampton, Ben Folds, Pat Benatar, Colin Hay and many more. They are not to be missed.
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