Band: Four Finger Five
Album: 2:22
Genre: Rock/Soul/Blues
RIYL: Al Green, Led Zeppelin
Four Finger Five CD Release
Feb. 13, 9:30 p.m.
Founders
$5
Michigan Brewer's Guild Winter Beer Fest
Feb. 27, 12-5 p.m.
Comstock Park
Four Finger Five has been pinned as a jam band, but a listen to its latest release, 2:22, would reveal it's more of a rock band, with hints of funk and soul, and the capacity to jam.
This first independent release is a definite step away from jam, with a more concentrated sound, that's "more songwriting than jamming" to Drummer Steve Harris.
Frontman Joe Sturgill explained the band has undergone quite a few changes since splitting with its record label and hooking up with engineer Bill Chrysler. The band has narrowed itself back down to a three-piece, and tightened up. Sturgill titled the album after the time he saw on the clock frequently during late nights writing and recording the album.
"[The album] sounds a lot more like we wanted it to sound compared to the last album," Bassist Mike Phillips said. "It wasn't as produced, just the raw music, just plain songwriting. Not a bunch of layering or overdub, just us three and our music."
"It sounds like when we play the songs live," Sturgill added.
FF5 has had a busy run since its last album. The band did a tour in Colorado and New York, played Rothbury for the second year in a row, were featured in Billboard Magazine, and played a show for 600 people on the deck of a retired WWII transport ship over Labor Day Weekend.
"We've all grown over the past year than I have any other years that I've played, just because we kind of developed a trust," Phillips said. "We're always comfortable with what the other person is doing when we're playing; we know our parts as a band as opposed to three musicians."
