FRINGE REVIEW: Jawbone Junction

When Jawbone Junction took the stage they knew enough to hit some southern classics from Marshall Tucker Band and ZZ Top but didn't hit the cow's ass with the iron.

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FRINGE REVIEW: Jawbone Junction

POSTED: Monday, September 10, 2012, 6:20 PM

Every year, there's hundreds and hundreds of performances at the Philly Fringe and Live Arts Festival, and unless it's one of the big shows, it's sometimes hard to tell what you're going to get. Here at Critical Mass we're sending writers to as many shows as we possibly can for 75 pocket-sized reviews over the course of the fest. Check back in with us at On The Fringe every day for real talk on what these things actually are!

SHOW: Jawbone Junction

GROUP: The Twisted Tail

GENRE: Music

ATTENDED: Sun., Sept. 12, 10 p.m.

CLOSES: Sept. 23

BRIEF SELF-DESCRIPTION: Legends of the Arkansas Delta pool halls and juke joints, Junction rocks Philly for the first time in a three-night stand at The Twisted Tail. Their brand of pure Southern rock-’n’-roll is the perfect way to end a night at the Festival with some booze and cheap thrills. Try not to lose your panties.

WE THINK: It’s easy to poke fun at Southern rockers, and really, Southerners in general. Their dress, the way they talk and their mannerisms come off as goofy to us up here. But the whole “Southerner” thing can really miss the mark if it isn’t hammed up enough. Let’s see some spittoon-hackin,’ bourbon-sippin’ drawled storytelling if you’re going to act like one. When Jawbone Junction took the stage they knew enough to hit some Southern classics from Marshall Tucker Band and ZZ Top, but they didn’t quite hit the cow’s ass with the iron. Sure, the story about a lead guitarist dying after getting food poisoning from a pulled-pork sandwich was great. But the rest of Jawbone’s residency better have more backstory for the band because a couple quips between songs just didn’t take us far enough down home.

—Brian Wilensky

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