So says their website. Always such a modest bunch they are. After getting together somewhere around 2002, the four veterans of other D-town bands were immediately generating buzz among local musicheads. We knew they were onto something big way back then and we were right. Since then TBT has been all over the country, kicking up dust and leaving hardcore fans in every city they go to. On the 23rd of this month, the band crosses that northern border for their first ever Canadian show in Winnipeg before doing a couple more further west in Albeta and B.C. After hitting Seattle and Oregon for a few more on the way back, the boys play Big Top Chautauqua, a really cool enormous outdoor tent near Bayfield, Wisconsin, then the State Fair two nights in a row August 29 & 30 (for free-go! White Iron Band is playing those nights also!). Then after their Labor Day weekend Harvest Fest show, TBT goes to Northern Ireland for their first ever shows overseas. Exciting times for them, and they really deserve it. Also exciting is the fact that their new album was completed the day after the Luce show, and they were about to purchase a new band van, just in time for the big trip up north and west. Man, they do a lot of traveling and are a hard working band.
Speaking of hard working, Banjo Dave Carroll's side project Two Many Banjos opened the night at Pizza Luce, so he was working overtime. Two Many Banjos boasts a stand up bass, fiddle, and two banjos. My favorite song of theirs is an instrumental named for Duluth hero Charlie Parr.
A few highlights of the evening for me were "Valley", and the rarely heard old school favorite that's sure to get a late night Duluth crowd jumping into the air "School Bus Driver" closer and the brilliantly performed, dark "Something in the Way". I was again amazed at how much the recently permanently added fifth Turtle, Ryan Young, enriched the sound of the other four musicians, who just play so strongly off eachother its remarkable. Here's TBT @ Luce:
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