Truckstop Coffee: For Dear Life… hang on, this is seriously good

I-3 mp3 Truckstop Coffee For Dear Life …. buy it

Gas Tank mp3 Truckstop Coffee For Dear Life

[This is the third in a series of guest reviews by my good friend Puppet Show, who has thankfully given in to my begging and agreed to help me out. News of this band came to me from the awesome blog, ninebullets.net and I sent Pup this album for review. Needless to say, he took to it like a pig to shit. I had a feeling he would, it's a great record and one that I completely recommend for your last minute holiday shopping! xoxo]

When it comes to music I can be rather fickle as Tart can attest to. I have to like the music I see, if I don’t, then I won’t listen to it. Yes you read that correctly, I have to like the music I see. That might seem unusual to some people but it is something that I think I have grown up with, a sense of vision in the music I listen to. If I can’t envision a song, or the sounds can’t take me to a place that I have never been before in my head, then I probably won’t like it. How many vanilla wrappers do you want to see before the vanilla wrappers get boring.

Take Truckstop Coffee, not only is it a name with a visual behind it, but it pretty much takes you to where the music begins, with a cup of truck stop Coffee. This rock four piece out of Lake Worth, Florida has a knack for telling stories. Every song I listened to was devoid of fluff or filler, and it took me somewhere. The sound is an old friend and drinking buddy at an old watering hole where you would sit, drink whiskey, and talk.

For Dear Life is 12 stories of life experiences that you may have never lived but after listening to this album you will think like you did. “Gas Tank,” a favorite of mine, is a song about trying to escape. “And your friends they’re all your biggest fans, except when they’re pouring sugar in your gas tank” These lyrics took me back to a time in my life when all I had was the desire to escape where I came from. But everyone I knew cheered me on and held me back, I love that song now. “Mrs.Grady” is an absolutely somber song of war, but the way it is played and sung, I feel like I am there. Truckstop Coffee has an uncanny way of bringing you into their music in a way that you don’t want to leave, each song makes me want the next and the next. For Dear Life is an array of mini stories written on a master level.

This band is a bottle of bourbon as I look out on the Blue Ridge mountains from my back porch. It’s what good, old music should be: raw stripped down and able to take you somewhere in your head as you listen. This sophomore album, For Dear Life, has made my Top 3 for 2009. Go listen, and see what I mean.

Tour Details
Jan 8 2010 9:00P Orlando Brewing Co – PETE SOLO Orlando, Florida
Jan 15 2010 9:00P Propaganda w/ The Most Beautiful Losers, Matt Woods Lake Worth, Florida
Jan 16 2010 9:00P New World Brewery w/ Will Quinlan, The Most Beautiful Losers, and Matt Woods Ybor City, FL
Jan 17 2010 9:00P Will’s Pub w/ Thomas Wynn, Most Beautiful Losers, Matt Woods Orlando, Florida
Jan 21 2010 8:00P Bodega Blue – Pete Solo Vero Beach, Florida
Jan 23 2010 8:00P 4620 Reinvented w/ Matt Woods, The Most Beautiful Losers Knoxville, Tennessee
Jan 27 2010 8:00P P&H Cafe Memphis, Tennessee
Jan 29 2010 9:30P Live Wire Savannah, Georgia
Jan 30 2010 8:00P The Atlantic w/ Ninja Gun Gainesville, Florida
Feb 14 2010 8:00P Sadie Rene’s w/ The Most Beautful Losers, Gunt Punchers, Matt Woods Canton, Ohio