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 THREE
DAY THRESHOLD-
Against the Grain (Hi-n-Dry)
About three months ago, Kier Byrnes (3DT’s lead singer) sent this CD to
me, it disappeared, and I promptly forgot about it. However, over the past
week or so, the usual sounds blasting from my six year old daughter’s
room changed from Baby Motzart, Kidz Bop (shiver), the soundtrack for The
Nightmare Before Christmas, The Ramones, Social Distortion, and The
Medveds to the sounds of bluegrass rock laced with rock-a-billy, Celtic,
and even some punk intensities searing with banjo plucking, licking
guitars, and a rhythm section worthy of a chain gang. As usual, I let the
music coming from her room play in the background of my thoughts, until
this new stuff she was playing made me want to throw on a pair of
shitkickers, hitch a ride to the dairy farm across town and throw M-80s at
the cows while swigging sweet love from a bottle of whiskey. “Narrow it
Down” opens the disc with its great sing along lyrics, which flows to
“Uni” and “Chicken Shack” that’ll have tight jeans wearing
hotties slapping their own asses in a “giddy up” musical fit. The love
song “Right Outside the Door” lets you catch your breath a bit, but
“Whiskey, You’re the Devil” is a hectic answer to its emotional
predecessor. “Ghost of Jimmy Ryan” sounds like it should be pouring
out of an old-fashioned rock-n-roll radio in 1932 Tennessee. The war like drumming in “A Toast to My Father” drives
home the best compliment a father could ever hear and “Back Home to
Derry” nicely closes out this at the moment phantom CD. Fearing that I
may harm the local bovine population and be cast upon some government
watch list for possession of explosives, I decided to venture into my
daughter’s room and investigate. “Reilly, what is this cd?” I asked.
“I don’t know, it’s yours. I took it from your stack,” she
answered. I walked to her CD player and opened it. As the CD ceased
spinning, I read “Three
Day Threshold; Against the Grain.” While I was fairly shocked that
my daughter was in possession of this disc, I was not surprised at the
music it played as this band is a good one. You really should pick up this
great 16-song release, and I really need to see these guys live. – Denis
Sheehan
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