HOOVES

Hooves are a rock n’ roll band. In a traditional sense, you know, with overdriven tube amps and swaggering bravado, with vodka dripping watermelons and cigarette stained fingernails, bad attitudes and hearts of gold. The kind of band you imagine living on some destitute farm, or downtown, in the various historical districts of Phoenix. Places they lived and shared, attacked one another and engaged in furious bear hugs. Hooves don’t make music for the self-consciously cool. They don’t do it for the money, nor are they opposed to being showered with it. They don’t do it for any other reason than joy, the kind of joy derived from those American ideals of Truth, Freedom and Volume, dusty black Levis and BBQ. It won’t help to read more much about it, so perhaps put the CD in the player and press play. Don’t say I didn’t ask nicely.