I've got some great news.

Truth & Salvage Company is making a triumphant return to Harlow's on Wednesday evening.

T&S is the only band to have (with a big nod to The Avett Brothers) two of their concerts appear on Aaron Davis' top 10 Sacramento shows of 2010, and that doesn't include their September gig opening for Tea Leaf Green at Harlow's, which led a certain wide-eyed young Sac Press reporter to proclaim: "Truth & Salvage was a game changer. I think everyone should go see them, every chance they get.  I certainly will be."

Since I've already broken the golden rule of "doth not quote thine self, lest ye wish to appear a pretentious ass.", I may as well keep it going:

"Truth & Salvage was born in Hollywood in 2005, but the bands roots and soul lie in places as disparate as Asheville, N.C.; New Orleans; Indianapolis; Tupelo, Miss.; Atlanta; deep-southern Ohio and, I like to think, in the backseat of a Greyhound bus, rolling down Highway 41. It is an unusual six-piece band featuring four singer/songwriters, each of whom brings a unique voice to the group."  

The following quote from a recent article on T&S Co. in the Boise Weekly also sums the band up nicely : "The Sacramento Press likened the band to 'a freight train ride down the Route 66 of American music,' complete with Hammond organ, steel guitar and accordion on board.".

Alright, we admit it, a couple of us here in the music department at SacPress are a wee bit smitten with the So-Cal sextet and their soulful, bluesy, countrified-rock'n'roll. Come check 'em out on Wednesday and you will be too.

Opening the show will be Monterey's Honeymoon, a quartet of female singer/songwriters playing their own brand of Americana Folk, which Phil Lesh (Grateful Dead, Furthur, do I really have to do this?) described as the music of "sirens and goddesses". (Goddesses in the pre-Charlie Sheen definition of the word)

Tickets are $10.00.

Doors open at 8:00pm.

I haven't been this excited for a show since, well. . . Mustache Harbor.  

But before that, since the last time Truth & Salvage were in town.

I'll see you on the dance floor.