The Wowz – Happy Today

The Wowz
Happy Today

Well sit me on a porch with a washboard and break out that old time jug ‘o moonshine. The Wowz certainly put you in that sort of mood with their strange Appalachian musical ways. There’s a little bit of everything in here, country folk with drunken down harmonies, kitchen sink percussion, and the requisite banjo. But there is something strange and off kilter in the mix that makes them sound more like the Silver Jews or Bill Callahan.

The singing on “Happy Today” from their Long Grain Rights CD is pretty quirky as is the rest of the instrumentation. It sounds sort of like the boys just set up shop on grandpa’s porch and started in on the hoedown.

“Birds Fly Higher” is a more standard countryish song, though still just as bouncy. I feel like this track could have been a Schoolhouse Rock song in the 70s. The Wowz mix silly melodies and instrument lines that sound very Beatlesque on this song. Their easygoing and lighthearted ways are pretty infectious. The band is made up of Sam Grossman (guitar, bass, vocals), Simon Beins (guitar and vocals) and Johnny Dydo (drums, vocals). Hey look, everyone sings!

Sample tracks from The Wowz
Happy Today – Long Grain Rights CD
Birds Fly Higher – Long Grain Rights CD

by Palebear