​DUG (from the album Have at It!

​DUG (from the album Have at It!

​DUG (from the album Have at It! on Claddagh Records/Universal Music Ireland) (by Bryant Liggett)

The duo of DUG do a lot. Minimalist Blues, Gothic Folk, fringe Bluegrass, and Folk Gospel; anything that can fall under Americana is explored via their latest in Have At It!. Digging into the history of American string band music will take you back to Ireland and Scotland, which is the same musical landscape DUG will take you. One-half of the duo, Jonny Pickett, was raised in California while Conor O’Reilly grew up in Scotland. Their pairing offers a touch of traditions from both the old and new world, blending with the past to create a sonic future.
There’s the trance-inducing album opener in “Cold Frost”, a fiddle pushing out a head-nodding melody before minimalist, but bouncing, percussion kicks in on this instrumental. The Have At It! title track has thick harmonies in this Gospel cut, “Livelong Day” is a tune that’s rough around the edges, banged out like a dirty, Blues Rock track. DUG nail the Old Timey vibe in a jig inducing version of “Cumberland Gap”. The pair throw in some American psychedelia via the drifting “Katie Cruel”, the haunting, Western noir of “Big Sundown”, and the moving-at-its-own pace ramble of “When the Days Cool Down”. 
A melting pot of an album, Have At It! stretches beyond Front Porch twang. The repetitive banjo and fiddle lines are head-bobbingly hypnotic at any pace while there’s a driving, stripped down DIY Indie Rock vibe. The influences are obvious, from the sounds that were carried West across the Atlantic, and into twang, Blues and even Rock, DUG’s feet in two different worlds presents a musical history lesson for yesteryear, and this year.
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