“We’re gonna light it, we’re gonna burn it down” this veteran roots rocking trio shouts in unison on the opening track of the band’s seventh offering. And that’s the blueprint for the next 30-plus minutes on ‘Barnburners!’.
The threesome emerges out of upstate New York, but you’d never know it from the deep swamp groove they wallow in with all the energy and integrity of a group that was eating polk salad greens for three meals a day. As if to acknowledge that, they cover Tony Joe White’s hit “Polk Salad Annie” (the woman whose tough qualities likely came from her mama who was working on a chain gang) with an authentic soul/blues straight out of the deep South. Lead singer/guitarist Jamison Passuite (the band’s founder and…