Hot summer releases from Houston bands By SARA CRESS Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle Houston's dearth of good, traditional rock bands may reflect an overall deficiency in mainstream music. Music isn't made for adults anymore. It's made for 12-year-old girls or 18-year-old kids in skinny jeans or perpetual college students. Adults get stuck with stale classic-rock radio. Orange Is In is one of those bands that keeps chugging for the grown-ups. The band's new EP, Come and Take It, revels in this hard-won maturity with cautionary tales, rootsy rock songs laced with elegant violin, and singer George Kovacik's Costello/Springsteen-esque vocals. Sticky Finger, See Me Through and Inside are the disc's strongest tracks, each proving the band's ability to write catchy hooks and big choruses. Even Strike You Down, my least favorite track on the disc for its overwrought, '80s guitar burps, is still better than most rock music being made in Houston. This is the best disc yet from Orange Is In, a band whose recordings have matured nicely over just a few years. Come and Take It should give hope to adults everywhere that someone still cares about their listening needs. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/music/local/cd/5075590.html They also did a podcast with us. http://blogs.chron.com/handstamp/archives/2007/08/podcast_orange.html
very clever dropping the "s" off the end of "Sticky Finger".... i was about to notify the Rolling Stones' attorney(s). quick question jeff.... how would you describe your music?
geez, Jeff...you're such an attention w****... Since you love weather so much, do a cover of Rock You Like a Hurricane for your next CD.
congrats Jeff. I'd like to make it out to see one of your live shows one of these days. I saw part of one of your shows once at Rudyards but it was after a wedding and I didn't know who I was watching. I remember enjoying the music though.
Actually, the words "Sticky Finger" are from the lyrics. It wasn't a reference to the Stones at all, though we obviously considered it. We consider ourselves American Trad. Rock (a term used on the internet short for American Traditional Rock). http://rateyourmusic.com/genre/american+traditional+rock
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Wow that's weird, I live off of Louetta. I'm going to see if I can catch your show at Full Throttle Coffee. Never been there before.
Counting or Black? Neither really. Like most musicians, I'm not a big fan of comparisons to other bands. I do it like everyone else, but it is just tough to find those comparisons for myself. I've heard everything from Springsteen/Costello to Toad the Wet Sprocket to Beatles to Train to classic rock, roots rock, the Band, whatever.
