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Wess Floyd and the Daisycutters: Blood Sworn Enemies

A short essay by: Bo Cook

Iâm sitting in the back row of some writerâs conference at Vanderbilt University and I start talking to this amazing redhead who looks like Lindsay Lohan off coke. We hit it off and I wind up meeting her later at some bar called 3 Crow that she recommends on east side of town. While weâre there, she asks me what my real reason for coming to Nashville is for, and I say, âTo hear a band called âWess Floyd and the Daisycuttersâ.â She asks, âWho are they?â I say, âWell, thatâs a loaded question, sweetheart. Iâm going to need some follow-ups.â Then the barrage comes. âDo they sound like âPanic at the Discoâ?â âOh my God, is that the band thatâs opening up for âDeath Cabâ this weekend?â âDo they have really cute names like âEzraâ and âRostamâ?â In other words, are they young, clean-shaven, hipster douchebags whose whole musical existence is based on the adoration of people who donât know shit about music and chicks that donât do cocaine anymore? âNo,â I say, and walk out.

It would be easy to say that âWess Floyd and the Daisycuttersâ sound like a modern mixture of classic rock bands like âTom Petty and the Heartbreakersâ or âBruce Springsteen and the E Street Bandâ (you rememberâ¦back when the cool guys were getting laid), but what does that mean anymore in Young America where the real music fans constantly find themselves trying to explain what exactly a âBorn to Runâ or a âDamn the Torpedoesâ is? It means you have to work a little harder. You have to put up the money yourself for an album, even if that means going without food for a couple of days. It means that, when you play a show, you have to leave all the hate, the hunger, the heartache, and the redemption you feel on the stage of every dive bar and juke joint from Kansas to Florida, because there are few places left anymore where real feelings truly belong. It means you have to bend the string a little more on a song called âBreaking Outâ, beat the snare a little harder on âSt. Paulâ, or scream a little louder on âRecord Playerâ. It means that you have to start something great in order to make people remember what American rock nâ roll really is all about, something that says that the few Young Turks that are still around have become tired of the bullshit, and then you have to call it âBlood Sworn Enemiesâ. P. S.: Theyâre coming after your daughters first.

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