CLASSIC ROCK : If You Buy One Album Out This Week, Make It LEFT LANE CRUISER “Dirty Spliff Blues”

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Left Lane Cruiser – Dirty Spliff Blues

You want dirty? We’ve got dirty. We’ve got a multi-tiered cake of the filthiest blues-rock in Indiana, USA. Not to mention some of the more charismatic. Nestled somewhere between the raw, mad Robert Johnson blues of the Graveltones and the heavy Southern fuzz of The Cadillac Three – plus the spiky, modern cool of both – Left Lane Cruiser have steadily carved a scuzzy yet groovy addition to present-day rootsy music. The latest result of which can now be yours.

The title of their eighth LP is a good one: if a dirty spliff (or just someone who’d smoked a fat one) was somehow turned into music, having been dragged through a swamp, it would sound like this. Brandishing guitar, drums, bass and skateboard (yes, a skateboard, as an instrument) the hirsute trio have channelled their DIY ethic into a big, barrelling plate of burly distortion, hillbilly drawl and loveably hulking grooves. A button-pusher for blues lovers, roots types and fuzzy hard rockers.

READ THE ENTIRE REVIEW HERE

LEFT LANE CRUISER’s new album “DIRTY SPLIFF BLUES” out today

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GET THE VINYL FROM OUR MAIL-ORDER HERE

“A breathless 40 minutes of brawler blues.” – The BLUES MAGAZINE
“Transgressive, in-your-face, and unapologetic.” – AMERICANA MUSIC SHOW
“Not just dirty, but filthy.” – CLASSIC ROCK MAGAZINE
“Gloriously nasty” – MAXIMUM VOLUME
“The band’s truly broken bad and there’s no looking back.” – I-94 BAR
“Their best release yet.” – GLACIALLY MUSICAL

UPCOMING TOUR DATES :
June 20 @ Booze Day — Bellefontaine, OH
July 1 @ River Concert — Fort Wayne, IN
July 8 @ Shitty Barn — Spring Green, WI
July 10 @ Crunchy Frog — Green Bay, WI
July 11 @ Reggie’s — Chicago, IL
July 16 @ Brickhause — Stevens Point, WI
July 17 @ Bayport BBQ — Bayport, MN
July 18 @ RRDB Fest — Minneapolis, MN
July 19 @ Russell’s Bar — Annandale, MN
July 20 @ Nakato Bar — North Mankato, MN
July 23 @ The Railyard — Billings, MT
July 24 @ The Club Cigar — Great Falls, MT
July 25 @ The Filling Station — Bozeman, MT
July 26 @ Keefer’s Island — Idaho Falls, ID
July 30 @ The Shakedown — Bellingham, WA
July 31 @ NW Deep Blues Fest — Little rock, WA
August 1 @ Blue Moon Tavern — Seattle, WA
August 2 @ Dante’s — Portland, OR

LEFT LANE CRUISER : HIGH HOPES feature in CLASSIC ROCK Magazine

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A ‘blind date’, a skateboard bass and a bag of weed – all you need for hillbilly punk-blues glory.

By rights, Left Lane Cruiser really shouldn’t be in this part of the mag. Formed over a decade ago, and seven albums old, they’re hardly cherubic newcomers. It’s just that, for various reasons, Britain has been slow to catch on to the Mideasterners’ dusty, punky take on blues rock – a rousing clatter that conjures up images of Billy Gibbons fronting the Stooges.

Part of that is down to work permit issues with the UK authorities. “We tried to play there about eight years ago,” explains splendidly named frontman Freddie ‘Joe’ Evans IV, “but your guys wouldn’t let us in. Took our fingerprints, put us in airport jail for six hours and put us on the first plane home.”

READ THE COMPLETE CLASSIC ROCK INTERVIEW HERE

HIGH TIMES magazine premieres LEFT LANE CRUISER’s new song “Cutting Trees”

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LISTEN THE SONG VIA HIGH TIMES MAGAZINE

“This new album is a testament to the struggles of being a band on the road without weed, the journey we undertake in pursuit of sufficient THC levels, and the beauty of getting stoned and breaking off some crusty, dirty jams. When the cops take our weed they never get all of it. We make them work for that shit. We’re the guardians of the ganja!” – FREDDY J IV