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From our partners at Goodfoot Lounge

With an arsenal of banjos, guitars, mandolin, fiddle, pedal steel, upright bass, and thundering drums, RPS's sound is a wholesome mishmash of creek mud, rusty nails and your mom's cookin'. It's sincere, straight-forward and sexy as ****, effortlessly combining such disparate musical styles as rock, country, bluegrass, and punk to create an incomprehensibly smooth and accessible sound for true believers and skeptics alike.

With wisdom beyond their years, they fearlessly confront traditional country music themes of loss, lamentation, and redemption, while throwing in some drinking-songs for good measure. Sure, they're borrowing pages from the books of Hank Williams, Bill Monroe, and Johnny Cash, but Rose's Pawn Shop takes those pages, tears them up and sets them on fire with breakneck speed, bluegrass instrumentation, 3- and 4- part vocal harmonies and lyrics that'll break your heart.

Joining RPS for the evening are PDX's soulful newgrass/folk quartet Fruition and the indie-rock/punk energy of The Villains.

Sat 5/29/10
Goodfoot lounge
2845 Southeast Stark Street
Portland, OR 97214
9pm, $8, 21+