My brother is touring the North East right now, and I’m unbelievably jealous. Not only is he seeing one of the most beautiful parts of the country without me, but the car rental company ran out of the type of cheap budget car he ordered and reluctantly upgraded him to a convertible instead. What a jackass.

Now, I’m not touring New England. And I don’t have a convertible. But if I were and I did, here’s what I’d be listening to: an Alberta band called Ghostkeeper.

Ghostkeeper are a rootsy, blue-rock band who might be more at home in places like Mississippi than Canada. I know not whether they’ve even been as far south as the Mississippi Delta area which their music recalls, but if they haven’t, they do a hell of a job sounding like they have. The harmonies on this track alone push it to the top of the stack of good new music, and anything beyond that is icing on the cake, as they say.

The lyrics deal with northern themes (you know like snow and stuff), but the music is delta blues down to the core; the chorus (”Why won’t you meet me in Three More Springs…”) is almost indistinguishable from bands like CCR and their contemporaries. Of course, Ghostkeeper are anything but a glorified cover band, and know how to rework their rather obvious influences into something original. “Three More Springs” is all around refreshing and enjoyable, the perfect music for coming down off a four-day patriotic fireworks bender.

Tunes:

Ghostkeeper - “Three More Springs”

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Children of the Great Northern Muskeg is out July 15, 2008 on Saved By Radio.

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