{"id":706,"date":"2026-06-05T15:08:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/?p=706"},"modified":"2026-06-06T02:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T02:59:14","slug":"tigerman-woah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/tigerman-woah\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigerman Woah! &#8211; Live at the Bridge Sound and Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/3YSgBH9Dl86umED7UXiUQz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Listen on Spotify<\/a><\/em><\/strong><br><strong>16 tracks<\/strong><br>There is a certain thing Americana music does better than other genres. A defiance, a transcendence that acknowledges death and drink and all the worldly troubles people carry around on a daily basis. Gets in grief\u2019s face and gives it the finger. Tigerman Whoa\u2019s music embodies this, and on\u00a0<em>Live at The Bridge Sound &amp; Stage,<\/em>\u00a0they get right into it, kicking off this set with \u201cMy Grave,\u201d leading the crowd singing the refrain, \u201cOh, though they\u2019ve tried\/I\u2019ll send myself to my grave.\u201d\u00a0 The struggles are familiar. Promises not to get drunk (\u201cOld Plank Road\u201d), fighting the boss (\u201cThe \u201969 Strike\u201d), love and hate (\u201cGuess So\u201d), racism \u201cBabydolls\u201d), and even environmental apocalypse (\u201cCount Me In\u201d). The beating heart of the thing is country mythology, similar to how the Drive-By Truckers write. Musically, they cast a wide net. Plinking banjos and octave-split guitar solos. Walls of distortion and slinky Marc Ribot-inspired licks. Train beats and Gene Krupa-inspired swinging tom beats. The low, grumbling vocals sound like Woody Guthrie reborn in Soloman Grundy\u2019s body. It\u2019s hard not to feel the intensity when they play, especially when they\u2019ve got a crowd in front of it. The music is a rallying cry for your feet and your soul. (Nick Zaino)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen on Spotify16 tracksThere is a certain thing Americana music does better than other genres. A defiance, a transcendence that acknowledges death and drink and all the worldly troubles people carry around on a daily basis. Gets in grief\u2019s face and gives it the finger. Tigerman Whoa\u2019s music embodies this, and on\u00a0Live at The Bridge [&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-706","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\/706","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=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}