Red Rooster

An alt nation band whose make of rootsy Americana blends folk, blues, rock and roll and hip-hop along with a clear dosage of what may be called Mexican klezmer right into a audio that’s somehow both startlingly new and familiar at exactly the same time, Red Rooster was shaped in NEW YORK in 1998 by friends Jay Erickson (business lead vocals, classical guitar, harmonica) and Nat Zilkha (business lead guitar, dobro). Both played initially like a duo but steadily expanded right into a complete music group with Ted Shergalis on fiddle, Jamie Forrest on bass and mandolin, and Kilometers Crawford on drums, although Crimson Rooster will probably feature horns, DJs, turntables, and also complete choirs on any provided night. The music group self-produced and released Porch Tunes in 2003, pursuing it using the book and ambitious double-disc Dosage in 2005, which presented ten original tunes done up completely 21st century electrical style around the 1st disc using the same ten tunes carried out stripped down and acoustic on the next disc, an idea that could possess very easily been indulgent and repeated but worked well wonderfully, permitting each tune to reveal itself in various ways.