On Sunday, July 17 (Week #2) at 7PM in Mayo Park, JD MCPHERSON comes to #rochmn to help celebrate the 25th Anniversary season of Think Mutual Bank's Down by the Riverside Free Concert Series! Opening Act: The Dirty Banks. Media Sponsor: The Current.

JD McPherson’s raucous retro-rockabilly on tracks like “Northside Gal”, “Let the Good Times Roll”, and “Head Over Heels” spawned appearances on Conan, Letterman, A Prairie Home Companion, NPR’s World Café, Glastonbury 2015, Rock the Garden 2015, and induction into the Current’s Chart Show Hall of Fame.

You could mistake JD McPherson for a revivalist, given how few other contemporary artists are likely to assert, as he boldly does, that “’Keep a Knockin’ by Little Richard is the best record ever made. It’s so insanely visceral, you feel like it’s going to explode your speakers. If I’m listening to that in the car, I find myself having to brake suddenly. I can listen to that and it makes me feel like I’m 20 feet tall. And the feeling of joy I get from that record is always going to be the real push behind trying to make music”.

But in a very real sense, McPherson is much more a pioneer than roots resuscitator. He’s knocking at the door of something that arguably hasn’t yet been accomplished—a spirited, almost spiritual hybrid that brings the forgotten lessons from the earliest days of rock & roll into a future that has room for the modernities of studio technique and 21st century singer/songwriter idiosyncrasies that Richard Penniman would not recognize. Let the Good Times Roll, his second album, is a stranger, and more personal affair than its Fats Domino-redolent title might at first suggest, but the name isn’t exactly ironic, either. If you, too, brake for pleasure, you’ll screech to a halt at the enrapturing sound of these Good Times.

The Dirty Banks: It's been said that the Dirty Banks sound more like 90s alt rockers Pavement than the current brand of indie rock making the rounds in Minneapolis today. But this is no throwback band. Think of it as a new twist on an old favorite, where pop hooks meet fuzzy guitars and modern keys meet classic harmonies.
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