{"id":687,"date":"2026-06-05T15:08:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/?p=687"},"modified":"2026-06-06T02:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T02:59:14","slug":"jeff-byrd-dirth-finch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/jeff-byrd-dirth-finch\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Byrd &amp; Dirth Finch &#8211; Draggin Bones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/2ylC3mXOu96iKPofx0CRrm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Listen on Spotif<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/2ylC3mXOu96iKPofx0CRrm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>y<\/em><\/a><\/strong><br><strong>12 Song Album<\/strong><br>This Rhode Island based alt-country quartet have an impressive debut in Draggin Bones.\u00a0 Their descriptive vocals, twangy sound and emotive performances remind me of a cross of Travelling Wilburys, Ryan Adams and NRBQ. Frontman, Jeff Byrd has a terrific line up with Dan Simpson, Steve Del Tufo and Shawn O\u2019Brien. The group has real chemistry and it shows, especially on songs like \u201cTo Be Within\/Without\u201d and \u201cSomething So Beautiful.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s bar room rock at its finest. These guys do a lot of touring fortunately and should be back here in Boston soon. (Kier Byrnes)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen on Spotify12 Song AlbumThis Rhode Island based alt-country quartet have an impressive debut in Draggin Bones.\u00a0 Their descriptive vocals, twangy sound and emotive performances remind me of a cross of Travelling Wilburys, Ryan Adams and NRBQ. Frontman, Jeff Byrd has a terrific line up with Dan Simpson, Steve Del Tufo and Shawn O\u2019Brien. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6,9],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-fall-2024","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":748,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}