LOVELL – The Old-Time Radio Gang, veteran Maine musicians devoted to the popular music of the 1930s and 1940s, will perform at 7 p.m. Friday, July 6, at The Brick Church for the Performing Arts.
The Gang’s renditions of classic melodies recapture the mood of the 1930s and ’40s when popular American music told stories from the hearts. Simple, honest and in many ways innocent, country music then (more often classified as bluegrass today) was purely acoustic, with six-string guitar, mandolin, banjo and stand-up bass.
“For an evening of vintage country music and cracker-barrel humor, The Radio Gang really fills the bill,” wrote The Boston Globe.
The Radio Gang has 11 recordings to its credit. Among them are “Old Country Radio Songs,” chosen by CD Review as one of the top four country CDs since the magazine began in 1984; “When the Roses Bloom Again,” and “New River Train,” submitted by Folkways Records for a 1993 Grammy Award.
The group recently recorded four albums for Fishtraks: “Get on Board,” “Sunbonnet Mother,” “River of Memories” and “Down in Memory Lane.”
Show time is 7 p.m. Admission is $10. For more information, call 925-2792.
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