It's tough to be sincere in music these days. Too far to one side and you're wearing eyeliner and singing about the angel who broke your heart, too far to the other and you're an insufferable wiseass. If you can take the good with the bad and do your best to tell the truth in your music, you're on your way to being an honest band.
Nashville's The Redding Shift is an honest band.
They are four guys who all came from somewhere else because they loved rock and roll: warts and all. They left Cleveland, ohio; New York City; Granby, Massachusetts, and Birmingham, Alabama to come to Music City to take the good with the bad. They didn't do it to be cool, they didn't do it to be hip, they did it because each of them had to.
Their sound is as concise and streamlined as you can possibly make a stew: the well-rehearsed outcome of four guys with very different backgrounds getting together to make music. on stage and in the studio they throw rock, blues, soul (whose greatest singer was the inspiration for the name of the band), gospel, punk, metal, and country together and, in the great Tennessee tradition, make rock and roll out of it. It's free of boundaries, free of preconceptions, free to be listened to by whoever comes along. Make no mistake: they want everyone to love their music.
The Redding Shift is a rare thing in music these days: a band that will look you in the eye and tell you they want you to love what they're doing.
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| Jason Spencer - Lead Vocals |
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| Mike Oberly - Guitars |
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| Scott Bowen - Bass, Vocals |
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| Jon Troutman - Drums |
