Thank you, Rocking Magpie! “Honestly; (Married Girls has) gone straight into my Sound of the Summer I-Tunes playlist; and also already a contender for Song of the Year.” https://rockingmagpie.wordpress.com/2016/02/10/mick-rhodes-and-the-hard-eight-paradise-city/

Maybe the most interesting part about the musical descriptor “a cross between Paul Westerberg and Lucinda Williams” is that both artists remain alive and well and making music, so a collaboration wouldn’t be out of the question. In the meantime, though, let’s not waste the opportunity to be surprised by others attempting to locate that potentially rather magical musical intersection between literate singer-songwriter country-rock and boozy, foot-stomping alternative rock. Mick Rhodes & The Hard Eight are a Los Angeles quintet that appears bound and determined to ply their trade in that heretofore imaginary Williams-Westerberg nexus, and does a damned respectable…